The Unbound Writer's Club: Recent Episodes
Nicola Humber
Welcome to the UNBOUND Writer's Club.This is a place to retreat from the muggle ways of the world, and be with fellow magical beings.It's a place to receive insights about how to write your transformational book in a way that lights you up, and to hear from other UNBOUND Writers.https://www.theunboundpress.com/
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with Pearl Jordan about Dancing to the Rhythm of Your Life, her recently released book that’s filled with stories of love, pain, laughter and hope. For Pearl, the overall arc for the reader is: life is forever evolving, so the journey never ends.
In this Episode:
- What makes Pearl an unbound writer?
- Challenging yourself and learning a new level of trust
- Dropping back into your heart and trusting your process
- Going on the journey of it and seeing what it brings
- You can’t unbind in isolation
- The unbound space is all about freedom and giving yourself permission
- What made Pearl decide to write a book?
- How was the process of bringing different layers into the book?
- Pearl’s book had a very strong spirit
- How did Pearl move through fears and doubts that came up along the way?
- Things that come up after you publish your book
- Pearl’s advice to someone feeling the call to go on the book-writing journey
Links:
Click here to join the free 2025 Unbound Writing Challenge, taking place from November 24th - 26th.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Interested in being part of a dedicated container for soul-led entrepreneurs and transformational leaders to conceive, create and complete your book? Check out the Abundant Author Portal application.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Pearl Jordan on her website or Instagram.
Purchase Pearl’s book via the usual outlets.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with Katrina about her recently released book, Shekinah Speaks: Divination Poetry for the UnBridled Woman. In 2015, Katrina wrote The Matrix Exposed, and now, a decade later, she’s released a book of poetry that’s also a Divination Tool: “Allow the guide of your thumb to find the page that holds whatever it is you seek clarity on.”
In this Episode:
- What makes Katrina an unbound writer?
- Energetic, mental and emotional unbinding
- Was there anything in particular Katrina had to unbind herself from?
- Katrina’s poetry is from the shadow feminine essence that we suppress
- What fears or doubts bubbled up for Katrina about sharing her poems?
- How did Katrina move beyond her fears?
- Getting outside your comfort zone
- Entelechy: the drive to activate your potential
- When you’re unbound, being unapologetic seeps into everything
- What is Katrina’s writing process?
- When Katrina’s writing comes, the unknown inside her is bursting to come out
- When we have the moment and work with the flow, it’s when the poetry comes
- Connecting to the essence of what you've created
- What advice would Katrina give someone feeling the call to write poetry?
- The words are encoded in Katrina’s DNA
- Unbinding is continual, and the magic ripples out and infiltrates
- It’s incredibly powerful to share our words in a way that’s more gentle and subtle
Links:
Click here to join the free 2025 Unbound Writing Challenge, taking place from November 17th-19th.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Interested in being part of a dedicated container for soul-led entrepreneurs and transformational leaders to conceive, create and complete your book? Check out the Abundant Author Portal application.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Katrina on her website.
Purchase Katrina’s book via the usual outlets.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with Delahrose Roobie Myer about her recently released book, Fatima's Alchemy: A Treasure to Behold. The collection of 158-fable-style stories was born from imagination, ritual and the quiet places where creativity meets courage.
In this Episode:
- What in particular makes Delahrose an unbound writer?
- Finding the Unbound Press was an interesting journey for Delahrose
- Gaining liberty to think outside the box
- What is your signature writing style?
- How and when did the idea to create Fatima's Alchemy drop in?
- The freedom of expressing in collaboration with Fatima
- Maintaining the integrity of what comes through
- Connecting with a book beyond words
- What fears or doubts came up for Delahrose?
- Working with your book rather than resisting it
- The healing you get from writing your book is beyond measure
- Conquering those shadow voices within that said you can't
- Giving permission or an invitation to trust yourself more deeply
- How does Delahrose feel now Fatima's Alchemy is out in the world?
Links:
Click here for Nicola’s free Abundant Author Archetype assessment.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Interested in being part of a dedicated container for soul-led entrepreneurs and transformational leaders to conceive, create and complete your book? Check out the Abundant Author Portal application.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Delahrose on her website, Substack or Instagram: @delahrose / @fatimasalchemy.
Purchase Delahrose’s book via the usual outlets or her website.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is solo, talking about the Abundant Author Archetypes. What on earth are they? A piece of the book-writing puzzle that dropped in over the summer, around the time of Lion’s Gate. They’ve changed the game when it comes to holding space for the book-writing journey, and also in terms of Nicola’s own process. Listen in to find out more, and if you’re curious to discover your archetype, click on the free assessment below.
In this Episode:
- Why do the Abundant Author Archetypes matter, and why are they so powerful?
- How can they give you an extra layer of clarity that changes everything?
- Our books always take us on a journey that we often don't expect
- How you show up – the identity piece – is key
- When you tune in to your archetype, everything starts to make sense
- Examples are the Sacred Rebel, the Oracle and the Alchemist – tune in for more
- Your archetype isn’t static, and there are core and supporting ones
Links:
Click here for Nicola’s free Abundant Author Archetype assessment.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Interested in being part of a dedicated container for soul-led entrepreneurs and transformational leaders to conceive, create and complete your book? Check out the Abundant Author Portal application.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with Dr Jennifer M. Booker about her recently released book, Idiot-Proofing Democracy: Reimagining the U.S. Constitution. “It’s such an incredible piece of work,” says Nicola. This is the second book Jennifer’s published with the Unbound Press; the first was The New Normal, back in 2019.
In this Episode:
- What makes Jennifer an unbound writer?
- What called Jennifer to write Idiot-Proofing Democracy?
- How long did it take Jennifer to write the book?
- Did any fears or doubts come up about actually publishing her book?
- Taking a chance on there being a backlash
- What kind of response has Jennifer received for her book?
- What advice would she give someone feeling the call to write a pioneering book?
- The right audience will find your work, and that's really important
Links:
Would you like to publish with The Unbound Press in 2025? We invite you to join the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy.
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Jennifer Booker on her website, WordPress or Facebook.
Purchase Jennifer’s book via the usual outlets or by contacting her directly.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with Dainei Tracy about her book, Hellacious, a “fierce journey of the inner Quean archetype as she confronts 5,000 years of cultural repression and reclaims her creative, spiritual fire”. Join us as we dive into Dainei’s journey.
In this Episode:
- What makes Dainei an unbound writer?
- Struggling with internalised, hierarchical patriarchal voices
- Can Dainei remember the first time her writing came from a free place?
- Translating our inner experience into something we feel people will get
- What’s it like for Dainei, receiving people's responses to Hellacious?
- What would Dainei say to someone feeling the call to write a book?
Links:
Want to learn how to write a book that becomes the foundation for the BIG work you're here to do in the world? Get immediate access to The Abundant Author free training here.
Ready to birth your own book? Come join us in the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Dainei Tracy on Facebook, Instagram or her website.
Purchase Dainei’s book via the usual outlets or by contacting her directly.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with Lucy Lowes Paget about the creative retreats she offers at ApotheFinca in Nicaragua. Lucy’s also in the process of publishing a book with us called The Home Tree, about her life, nature, myths and the beautiful guanacaste that lives beside her house.
In this Episode:
- Has Lucy had to unbind from any old stories, expectations or beliefs?
- Deepening into what’s true and fulfilling: a challenge that comes like waves
- What called Lucy to Nicaragua?
- How did Lucy feel the call to write a book?
- Rehab of Lucy’s spirit and learning writing skills
- What called Lucy to offer creative residencies?
- A safe but vibrant container to do deep, good, creative work
- Was inviting others to create always part of Lucy’s vision?
- Resting is such a vital part of recalibration
- Finding creativity once our buckets are full of health and energy
- What impact has the land and space in Nicaragua had on Lucy’s writing?
Links:
Want to learn how to write a book that becomes the foundation for the BIG work you're here to do in the world? Get immediate access to The Abundant Author free training here.
Ready to birth your own book? Come join us in the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Lucy Lowes Paget via her Substack, Instagram or her retreat centre, ApotheFinca.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with Carolyn Davis Cid about ‘A Mother's Love’, her recently-released debut book. In the emotional and heartfelt novel, “a family rediscovers its roots and each other in the midst of a global pandemic.” Like the protagonist (Jeanette), Carolyn’s number one priority is her family.
In this Episode:
- Is there an old belief Carolyn’s liberated herself from?
- Writing for someone else versus yourself
- When did Carolyn feel called to write A Mother's Love?
- The isolation of Carolyn’s protagonist
- Authoring: your own creative spark that just comes from you
- How did Carolyn actually find the time to write?
- Support is so, so important
- Fears and doubts that came up for Carolyn during the process
- Ways to be in community
- We show up for our books like we do our children
- What advice would Carolyn give someone thinking about writing a book?
- Outtakes and edits, but no deletions or retractions
- People need to hear your story, and want to
Links:
Want to learn how to write a book that becomes the foundation for the BIG work you're here to do in the world? Get immediate access to The Abundant Author free training here.
Ready to birth your own book? Come join us in the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Carolyn Davis Cid via her website, Instagram or Facebook.
Purchase Carolyn’s book here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with Lizzie Cantopher about her recently-released debut book, ‘The Nightingale Who Lost Her Song: An Enchanting Tale of Friendship and Resilience’. The magical creation is for children and adults – the soul song of a woman who grew up being told she was “stupid” at school, before discovering she was dyslexic and forging a remarkable path of strength, adventure and heart.
In this Episode:
- What did Lizzie unbind from in order to birth her book into the world?
- Why a nightingale?
- Lizzie’s first language is visual
- Lizzie has a photographic memory, but not for words
- Did Lizzie have a clear sense of how she wanted the book’s illustrations to look?
- It's okay to be different, say we're different, and that we need help
- Did any fears or doubts come up for Lizzie during the process?
- If someone’s doubting themselves, what advice would Lizzie give?
Links:
Want to learn how to write a book that becomes the foundation for the BIG work you're here to do in the world? Get immediate access to The Abundant Author free training here.
Ready to birth your own book? Come join us in the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Lizzie Cantopher via her website or Instagram.
Purchase Lizzie’s book here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with Natalie Farrell about creating the audio version of Light the Way. The inspiring book is a combination of biography and self-help guide. They also delve into The Power of Us, an event Natalie hosts, where sound, story and connection are celebrated. Click the link below for more info and to sign up.
In this Episode:
- What makes Natalie an unbound writer?
- What made Natalie decide to record an audio version of Light the Way?
- Trust, evolution and expansive loyalty
- Continuing to grow, evolve and shine
- The domino effect of the opportunities that come with writing a book
- How has the recording process shifted Natalie’s relationship with Light the Way?
- Deeply transformational books hold space for us
Links:
Ready to birth your own book? Come join us in the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Natalie Farrell via her website or Instagram.
Download Natalie’s audio version of Light the Way on Audible or Spotify.
The next Power of Us is taking place on November 13th in Bristol.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with Jackie Reeves, an Energy Healer, a Manifestation Coach and a Writer. Join them as they talk about Jackie’s journey to writing her recently-birthed book, ‘Chaos to Calm: How to Reset Your Life and Manifest Your Dreams’. In the book, Jackie shares her personal story, and offers practical tools for midlife women ready to reclaim their identity.
In this Episode:
- What makes Jackie Reeves unbound?
- How did Jackie get started with Chaos to Calm?
- Did writing flow easily for Jackie?
- Has Jackie always been a writer?
- Taking a break and going back with fresh eyes
- What was it like for Jackie to revisit past experiences?
- What doubts came up for Jackie during the writing and publishing process?
- How did Jackie move through her fears?
- What advice would Jackie give someone starting their book-writing journey?
- Putting pen to paper rather than typing
- Writing stimulates creativity in many different ways
Links:
Ready to birth your own book? Come join us in the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Jackie Reeves via her website, Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with the Courageous Hearts Collective, a group of five transformational life coaches: Holly McLoughlin, Marna Fujimoto-Pihl, Owen Sea Luckey, Maggie Pierce and Deborah Thornton. Listen in as they talk about their recently birthed collaborative book, ‘Permission Slips for Claiming Our Emotions’ — an invitation to pause, breathe, and try a radically different path, where your emotions are trusted allies rather than obstacles, and you stop silencing your truth and start living it.
In this Episode:
- Giving yourself permission to listen to the voices and writing that wants to emerge
- How and why did The Collective decide to write Permission Slips?
- Why were they called to write the book as a group?
- The most deep and powerful collaboration
- What fears and doubts came up during the collaborative book-writing process?
- Compassion, trust, and a nurturing atmosphere
- Advice for someone who’s early on in their book-writing journey
- The call to write being greater than your fear
- Writing becoming your friend — something you can't go a day without
Links:
Ready to birth your own book? Come join us in the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with the Courageous Hearts Collective via their website.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is solo, talking about five things she learned during the writing process of her latest book, ‘The Abundant Author Playbook’, an interactive guide to creating an abundant business around your book. Tune in to hear about everything from timing to simplicity.
In this Episode:
- What was Nicola’s book-birthing journey like?
- Trusting your book will give you clarity when the time is right
- Allowing things to be simple
- Having a bit of distance from your book
- Noticing your judgement
- Letting your launch be spacious
- Allowing yourself to be supported by people who get you really makes a difference
- The joy of working with the Unbound Press team
Links:
Ready to birth your own book? Come join us in the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Elizabeth Cambanos. Tune in as they talk about Elizabeth’s recently birthed book, ‘The Cyclical Journal: Embrace your cyclical energy to transform your life’. The interactive, self-development hybrid book/journal is “An empowering guide designed to help women reconnect with their natural cycles and live with more ease, balance and intention.”
In this Episode:
- An exciting opportunity for Elizabeth’s authentic voice to come through
- Breaking through social conditioning
- Why did Elizabeth feel called to create The Cyclical Journal?
- What were Elizabeth’s first steps?
- Coaching in a book format
- Putting a typical diary into a woman's hormonal cycle format
- Committing to our body and finding our intuition
- The cyclical nature of writing
- Our cycle impacts the way we feel about our books as we're writing them
- What fears and doubts did Elizabeth experience while birthing her book?
- How did Elizabeth navigate those fears and doubts?
- Imposter syndrome: a way our identity is shifting
- It's okay not to do everything in one go
- Releasing expectations and working with our cycle
- What advice would Elizabeth give someone feeling called to create a journal?
Links:
Ready to birth your own book? Come join us in the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Elizabeth Cambanos via Instagram.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with inspirational author Lindsey Elms. Listen in as they talk about Lindsey’s recently released book, ‘Guided by Love: A first aid kit for your broken heart’ – an intimate journey from despair to healing, and how to rise from the ashes.
In this Episode:
- What makes Lindsey an unbound writer?
- Why did Lindsey feel the call to write Guided by Love?
- How did Lindsey actually start the process?
- You don't necessarily need a very structured plan
- Ideas come: the book works through you to get out what it wants to say
- Being free with what you want to express
- What advice Lindsey would give someone starting their book-writing journey?
Links:
Ready to go deeper into your own book-writing journey? We invite you to join the Unbound Writer's Collective - the dedicated membership and community for magical, unbound writers.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Lindsey Elms via her website or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with magical author Lisa 'Sunya' Joynes. Join them as they talk about Sunya’s journey and her recently birthed book, ‘The Story of Sunya's Magic Hat: A true and remarkable tale of synchronicity, intuition... and the magic of The Universe’.
In this Episode:
- Transforming from Lisa to Sunya the Shaman
- It's all about inspiring people to take a step on the path of transformation
- Divine timing and trusting the process
- How does the magic hat come into the picture?
- Clown energy and imagination
- Being your true, authentic self
- Everything is about energy
- Each book is a portal of its own
- Opening your heart and mind
- The magic and power of constantly changing
- It's no coincidence that Sunya chose to publish her book with the Unbound Press
- Balance between the divine masculine and the divine feminine
- What was Sunya’s actual writing process like?
- How is Sunya’s next book unfolding and evolving?
Links:
Ready to go deeper into your own book-writing journey? We invite you to join the Unbound Writer's Collective - the dedicated membership and community for magical, unbound writers.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Lisa 'Sunya' Joynes via her website, TikTok, or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with Hazel Anderson-Turner about her recently released book, ‘Coaching Through Burnout: A burnout prevention toolkit for busy leaders and their teams’. The practical guide offers an evidence-based approach to navigating chronic workplace stress. As well as being an unbound author, Hazel is a Business Psychologist and Mindset Coach, specialising in resilience and leadership.
In this Episode:
- What makes Hazel an unbound writer?
- Hazel’s humanness and vulnerability
- The humor Hazel brings to heavy topics
- What made Hazel decide to write her book?
- How did Hazel find the process of translating a course into a book?
- Not overwhelming your readers
- Knowing what you want your reader to do
- Did particular fears or doubts come up for Hazel?
- What advice would Hazel give someone at the start of their book-writing journey?
- Finding a way to take the pressure off
- The writing comes when you take action, not when the right time has come
Links:
Ready to birth your own book? We invite you to join the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Hazel Anderson-Turner via her website.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Debra Kilby about her newly birthed e-book and meditations, ‘How to Communicate with your Unborn Baby’. Debra is also an Intuitive Energy Healer, Channel and Spirit Baby Medium, helping women conceive, or in loss, find answers and meet their babies.
In this Episode:
- A presence of self and following your own compass
- Unbinding from programmes that stop you creating time for yourself
- Creating within your own space and finding time for you
- Unbound doesn't mean unboundaried
- Choosing you, but not in a selfish way
- What pulled Debra to write How to Communicate with your Unborn Baby?
- Empowering people into their intuition
- Holding space for the reader to find their own way
- How did Debra’s book take form?
- Opening your awareness to what's around you
- What was Debra's writing process like?
- Making the time to prioritise your writing
- Has Debra learned to trust herself more as a writer?
- Trusting the energy of the book when it's calling
- The desire to be more of who you are feeling stronger than the fear
- All you have to do is be you
Links:
Would you like to publish with The Unbound Press in 2025? We invite you to join the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Debra Kilby via her website, Facebook or Instagram, and buy ‘How to Communicate with your Unborn Baby - eBook and meditations’ here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Natasha Joy Price about her newly released book, The Red Magus, “an enthralling mystical adventure set across time and space, where past and current lives converge”. Natasha is also an Energy Therapist, Guide and Teacher, with over 20 years of experience.
In this Episode:
- How did Natasha first get the idea to write The Red Magus?
- Writing about approaches, therapies and modalities, in the form of a story
- Fiction can be just as, if not more, transformational than non-fiction
- Writing as a flowing meditation
- Allowing yourself relaxation through creativity
- Writing is such a unique process for each of us
- Did any particular fears or doubts come up for Natasha?
- Books come from a place of calling
- You find your way as you go, and that’s so, so powerful
- What brought Natasha to energy work?
- Natasha’s corporate and spiritual worlds
- What advice would Natasha give people wanting to write?
Links:
Want to write, publish and promote your book the unbound way? We invite you to join our new membership - the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Natasha Joy Price on her website, and find out about her podcast, Balm to the Soul, here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Lorraine Pannetier about her newly released book, Raising Wild Birds. It’s out now – “an experiential guide in learning to live from a place of love, not fear”. It’s an “invitation to look inward – reflect on the patterns in your life, reconnect to your inner child, and learn to live from a place of pure, unconditional love”.
In this Episode:
- Finding your own way and style
- Did Lorraine have any beliefs or expectations she had to unbind from?
- When did Lorraine first feel the call to write Raising Wild Birds?
- How did the cover image come to be?
- Allowing your book to evolve
- There's something so precious about crafting a book yourself
- Community is a huge part of Lorraine’s book ending up where it is today
- There's a lot of potency in writing a book
- One piece of advice Lorraine would give people thinking about or writing a book?
Links:
Want to write, publish and promote your book the unbound way? We invite you to join our new membership - the Unbound Writer's Collective.
To find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press, get in touch.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Lorraine Pannetier on her website, Instagram / Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Lisa Melbourne about her second book, Initiation Of A Goddess: Reclaim the Magic and Power of Your Inner Goddess! It’s out now, and will take you on a journey of self-discovery, diving into the five ‘Pillars Of Goddess’: truth, accept, heal, love and freedom. Lisa’s an astrologer, coach and healer. Her first best-selling book, Natural Magic for the Modern Goddess, was released in 2021.
In this Episode:
- What makes Lisa an unbound writer?
- You don't have to write in a rigid, structured way – it's what flows
- Initiation of a Goddess was born through divorce and Lisa rediscovering herself
- Finding a balance between your head and heart
- Understanding a human experience for what it is and not overthinking it
- Was the writing process different with Lisa’s second book?
- Everything that's led Lisa to this point has been one big initiation
- What fears and doubts came up for Lisa?
- How did Lisa navigate worries about how people will react to her book?
- Turning inwards and working on yourself
- Whatever you invite into your life is a mirror of what's going on within yourself
- Responsibility and ownership, and writing from your side of the fence
- What advice would Lisa give someone starting out on their book-writing journey?
- If the call is there, there's a reason
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Lisa Melbourne on her website.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Hilary Salzman about the birth of her book, The Roar of Her Story: How to tell everyday stories to attract your dream clients and build a business that's unapologetically you. “As I read the manuscript, there were so many light bulb moments,” says Nicola.
In this Episode:
- Who is Hilary’s book for?
- Everyone has a voice; it's about drawing it out
- Finding your voice isn't just about writing really good content
- How did Hilary get started with actually writing her book?
- What advice would Hilary give someone who’s starting their book-writing journey?
- The most compelling writing is where we hear someone's voice
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Hilary Salzman on her website, Instagram or Substack.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about the Emotional Cycle of Change, a model put forward by psychologists Don Kelley and Daryl Conner. She realised it reflects what writers experience as they go through the book creation process. There are five stages – uninformed optimism, informed pessimism, the valley of despair, informed optimism, and success and fulfilment. Tune in to hear about each of them.
In this Episode:
- Excitement, reality check, the void, things coming together, and completion
- You don't know what you don't know
- The valley of despair is a normal part of the process
- Having support and a community is so important
- Do you feel like throwing in the towel with your book?
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola chats to unbound author Michelle Minnikin about recording the audio version of ‘Good Girl Deprogramming: Unleash The Rebel Within’ – her transformational book that offers “a fresh perspective on the pervasive effects of coercive control on women's lives and provides practical strategies for reclaiming your agency, discovering your true self, and embracing your 'bad' side’”. Click here to listen to a previous episode featuring Michelle.
In this Episode:
- What makes Michelle an unbound writer?
- Did Michelle always know she was going to record an audio version?
- What was the recording process like for Michelle?
- Did Michelle connect with the words differently when she spoke them out loud?
- Where is Michelle’s good girl conditioning still battling?
- What fears and doubts came up during the recording process?
- Experiencing a one-star review on Amazon
- External validation does not prove your worth
- What advice would Michelle give authors who receive negative feedback?
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Michelle Minnikin on her website, Instagram or LinkedIn, and you can listen to the audio version of Good Girl Deprogramming on Audible.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with author Amy Babiarz, delving into questions like what makes Amy an unbound writer, what are her fears and doubts, and what’s next. Tune in for Amy’s juicy answers. And click here and here to listen to previous episodes featuring Amy.
In this Episode:
- Getting comfortable with being uncomfortable in the name of continual growth
- Digging deeper into Amy’s main character, Jace
- Talking about real issues in a way that isn’t minimising or glamorising
- How did Amy feel dumping 20,000 words?
- No writing is ever wasted
- How did Amy start writing her books?
- Writing for yourself, not other people
- What piece of advice would Amy give someone who's just starting out?
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Amy Babiarz on Instagram.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola delves into the most powerful ingredient you can use when writing your book. There’s obviously you: your story, unique experience, and the journey that brought you to this point. But what’s Nicola’s ultimate magic sauce? Allowing yourself to create in community.
In this Episode:
- You don’t have to retreat from the world to write your book
- Creating in community offers accountability and sparks inspiration
- How can you invite in the energy of community?
- When are you going to make time for your writing today?
- Why not join the Unbound Writer’s Club membership? (click the link below for info)
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about committing to writing regularly. A dedicated practice isn’t about reaching a set amount of time or proving anything – it’s about showing up for your book.
In this Episode:
- The idea of being consistent
- Creating a devotional writing practice
- Writing in alignment with your cyclical nature
- Acknowledging that you can ebb and flow and create consistently
- It's not about showing up every day in the same way
- We’re influenced by so many cycles in our lives
- Invoking the power of regular writing sprints/saunters/strolls/spurts
- Showing your book you’re dedicated to it, without being rigid
- When are you going to write today?
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the revamped Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about the underlying principle of unbound writing: allowing the book creation journey to be one of transformation.
The unbound approach isn’t the most straightforward way to write your book, but it is the most potent.
In this Episode:
- How does unbound writing apply specifically to your book-birthing journey?
- Experiencing healing as you write your book
- Being willing to experience transformation in your life and work
- Starting your process before you have it all figured out
- Taking your readers on the journey with you
- Finding your way as part of the writing process – you don't have to wait
- Writing from your creative, courageous heart
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community?
Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
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Earlier this year, the Unbound Writer’s Club podcast took a break and reset the energy.
It's important to do that with our creations, whether it’s an offer, a blog, a podcast…
With that in mind, Nicola thought about what she wants you to experience from the podcast – as you’re listening and afterwards, too.
What came through? Listen in to find out.
In this Episode:
- Resetting the podcast: keeping it short and sweet
- Getting into momentum with writing, because your book is needed
- Stepping most fully into your identity by coming to the page and writing
- When are you making time for your writing today?
- Getting you to a point where your book is able to make its way into the world
- Each week, there will be one clear takeaway to support your book-writing journey
- Containers of support the Unbound Press offers to help you birth your book
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the refreshed Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about a simple and powerful way to get started with writing your book.If you’re keen to find out what it is, tune in.
In this Episode:
- The book you’re writing has an energy and a personality of its own
- You get to co-create with your book
- The work of Hiro Boga and Elizabeth Gilbert
- Connecting with the energy of the book you feel called to write
- Asking your book questions: what do you want me to express and focus on?
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months?
Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola shares insights from seeing the amazing Elizabeth Gilbert speak recently. Elizabeth has written many books, including Eat, Pray, Love, and Big Magic. The latter coached Nicola through writing her first book, Heal Your Inner Good Girl.
In this Episode:
- What did Elizabeth Gilbert’s wisdom spark in Nicola?
- Elizabeth’s struggle with finding time to write
- Focusing on and prioritising the things that are important to you
- Being bombarded with information and content
- If your book’s important to you, what’s it going to take for you to show up for it?
- Stepping into the identity of the transformational author you're here to be
- Compassion is more important than discipline
- We are cyclical beings; we get to ebb and flow with our process
- Trusting yourself and your own experience
- What do you do when your writing just doesn't feel good enough?
- Elizabeth’s relationship with her guides
- ‘Doing’ all the time isn’t how the creative process works
- Don't keep waiting for your book to feel perfect
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola concludes her mini-series about becoming an author who’s abundant in all ways. This time around, she talks about collaboration and connection – a key piece. All the areas Nicola explores (and more) are part of her new membership, the Abundant Author Academy (link below for more info and to join). Nicola’s next book, The Abundant Author, is due out in October.
In this Episode:
- Focusing on collaborative opportunities as well as creating financial abundance
- Connecting, collaborating and co-creating can open up a new community
- Being open and seeing where connections want to lead
- How can you move more deeply into connection with someone?
- People engage with what you share in different ways
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola continues her mini-series about becoming a writer who’s abundant in all ways. This time around, she explores how to create a compelling offer that helps you connect more deeply with your community, amplifies the message of your book, and provides a channel for financial abundance. Nicola’s next book, The Abundant Author, is due out in October.
In this Episode:
- Info about our new membership: the Abundant Author Academy (link below)
- Getting more money into the hands of magical beings like you
- Taking the pressure off creating the perfect offer and following what feels good
- Creating an offer that reflects the whole journey of your book
- Creating a micro-offer that focuses on part of your book or a particular theme
- An offer can mean one-to-one, a group, workshop or retreat – online or in-person
- What transformation do you feel most passionate about holding space for?
- What element of your book feels most inspiring when it comes to creating an offer?
- What kind of offer would your book most like to be the foundation for?
- Your book has an energy, an essence, a spirit and a personality of its own
- How would you most like to work with people?
- Two offer examples from Nicola’s personal experience – macro and micro
- Deciding on the offer price – an area the Abundant Author Academy will cover
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Keen to harness the power of your writing to make more impact and create an abundant income? Join the Abundant Author Academy
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola continues her mini-series about being a writer who is truly abundant in all ways. This time around, she dives into how to be more visible with your work and message – something that sends many people into a tailspin. Nicola’s next book, The Abundant Author, is due out in October.
In this Episode:
- Activating abundance through your writing and amplifying your magic
- Recognising that visibility is about so much more than being seen
- Issues that bubble up around visibility
- Confusion over how to be visible
- Deep and valid resistance to social media
- Ways to reach people that feel aligned
- How you express yourself will evolve over time
- Giving yourself permission to experiment
- Reframing visibility: connection rather than visibility
- Are you willing to be in deeper connection with yourself and others?
- How are you going to connect with new people?
- Keeping it simple: picking a core platform where you share your ideas, stories…
- Not getting hung up on numbers, listeners and followers
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
The Abundant Author Activation – a free online training for magical beings who have written a book (or are in the process of doing so)
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola continues her “Abundant Author” mini-series – what it means to be a writer who is truly abundant in all ways. This time around, Nicola focuses on the first layer of the process – embodiment and intention. Her next book, The Abundant Author, is due out in October.
In this Episode:
- Abundant Author Activation – free online course starting on April 8th (link below)
- Being the transformational author you are in the most abundant way
- The different layers of being the abundant author you’re here to be
- Getting financial abundance into the hands of magical beings like you
- Abundance is also about so much more than money
- Abundance can relate to anything – love, joy, peace, time, connection, energy…
- What does abundance mean to you?
- Who are you on your abundant author journey?
- How can you be an abundance of yourself?
- How can you allow more of yourself to be expressed in the world?
- Acknowledging fears around abundance – particularly financial abundance
- Awareness is powerful
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Join the Abundant Author Activation – a free three-day online training for magical beings who have written a book (or are in the process of doing so)
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola begins a mini-series where she dives into the “Abundant Author” – what it means to be a writer who is truly abundant in all the ways, and why it’s a critical piece of the puzzle.
Nicola invites you to see the bigger picture and recognise that book sales are the very tip of the iceberg.
Her next book, The Abundant Author, is due out in October.
In this Episode:
- Creating and running a business in an unbound way
- Your book is just the beginning
- Everything changes as you write your book, but often not in the ways you expect
- How can you allow your book to be a seed for what wants to come next?
- The Abundant Author Activation – a new and free online course (link below)
- Activating abundance and a deeper connection with your community
- Embodiment, intention and visibility
- Creating a compelling offer that feels amazing for you and your people
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
The Abundant Author Activation – a free three-day online training for magical beings who have written a book (or are in the process of doing so)
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about her own writing process – specifically, completing the manuscript for her next book, The Abundant Author, that’s due out in October. With her first draft complete, Nicola takes you behind the scenes, sharing the sort of things that bubble up at different stages of the journey. Hearing from someone who’s further along provides inspiration, but also highlights challenges that can come up.
In this Episode:
- You’re not alone in your book-writing process
- Imagining your book in the hands of readers can feel pretty terrifying
- Is my book good enough and have I been kidding myself?
- Moving from a place of ‘this is complete rubbish’ to ‘this is actually pretty good’
- Being objective about your book
- Striving for perfection and resisting completion
- Reaching a place where you allow your book to be done and good enough
- The fear of sharing your creative work with the world
- What parts of your book are already complete?
- Reining in comparing your book to previous ones and other people’s
- How your readers experience your book is what’s important
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with magical human Ceryn Rowntree, talking about her recently announced course, Rekindling Your Story. Join us as we dive into what to expect from the transformational 10-week programme.
In this Episode:
- Writing because it ignites something in you
- The courage Ceryn had as a child and young woman to just write
- The world does such a good job of binding our writing and us
- Marrying feminism and Goddess mythology
- Looking at stories through a divine feminist lens
- Allowing yourself to take up space
- Looking at the psychological side of things
- The opposite of patriarchy is sisterhood
- Sharing insights from a place of all being in it together (not a place of preaching)
- Your story is enough, however big or small
- Reclaiming the role of narrator, guardian and keeper of your story
- Who does Ceryn imagine Rekindling Your Story is for?
- Being the unbound version of yourself
- Sharing, owning and celebrating your story
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Ceryn Rowntree on her website or Instagram, and sign up to Rekindling Your Story here.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with magical authors Rimi Chakraborty and Samantha Anderson. Their transformative book – Beyond Resilience to Rootsilience: A Revolutionary Women's Leadership Framework for Balance, Well-being and Success – was released into the world last month. Rimi and Samantha invented the word ‘rootsilience’ (‘root - zeel - ience’) – join us as we explore what it means to them.
In this Episode:
- Books have their own sense of time
- Releasing expectations and perfectionist tendencies
- Digging deep and growing roots
- There's no one-size-fits-all approach
- You can't change consciousness by using the same language
- Inventing new vocabulary to shift understanding and behaviour
- Why is rootsilience so important for women leaders?
- The chakra system is Rimi and Samantha’s orienting framework
- Men will also benefit from Rimi and Samantha’s framework
- Rimi and Samantha’s collaborative process
- What’s the intention for the book?
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Rimi Chakraborty and Samantha Anderson on their website, Instagram or Facebook.
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What are your options when it comes to publishing? In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola gives an insightful overview of the three ways: self-publishing, using a traditional publisher, and the hybrid approach we offer at the Unbound Press. Which appeals to you? To dive deeper into the topic, Nicola invites you to join her Birth Your Transformational Book programme (click the link below for more info and to sign up).
In this Episode:
- Being guided by the essence and energy of your book
- Reviewing the options and making a conscious choice about how to birth your book
- Platforms that support you with printing and distributing a self-published book
- Not all hybrid models operate in the same way
- Levelling the playing field when it comes to the publishing world
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about things she wishes she’d known at the beginning of her book-writing journey, from the process sometimes being non-linear to not getting overly hung up on sales. Listen in for eight juicy nuggets.
In this Episode:
- The transformational journey of writing a book
- Giving yourself permission for the book-writing process to be non-linear
- The power of community and taking your people on the journey with you
- Leaving enough time to go through the publishing process
- Honouring the process of birthing your book into the world
- Preparing yourself for people not being ‘into’ your book
- Each book you write will be so different – content, personality, the process…
- Your book is a magical portal and just the beginning
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with magical author Amy Babiarz about Before We Rise – the sequel to her first novel, After the Last Fall. Join us as we dive into Amy’s journey since After the Last Fall was birthed into the world in 2020. Before We Rise is due out late spring/early summer – keep your eye out!
In this Episode:
- What is After the Last Fall about?
- Amy was the first-ever fiction author at the Unbound Press
- There's more than one way to have femininity
- Leaning into your femininity
- How Amy weaves themes and issues through her books
- What's Amy’s relationship like with Jace as a character?
- Removing pressure from yourself
- Writing a good story versus what you think you need to produce
- How long a break did Amy take between her two books?
- How does Amy feel she’s changed as a writer?
- A glimpse of Before We Rise
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Amy Babiarz on her website or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about carving out focused and dedicated time for your writing. Nicola recently returned from her own solo writing retreat, so she’s well-placed to share insights and tips.
In this Episode:
- What feels good for you?
- Don’t put too much pressure on yourself
- Allowing yourself space – it’s not all about the writing
- Letting go of expectations and trusting your creative cycle
- Being open to the unexpected and whatever wants to unfold
- Trusting that whatever happens is exactly what needs to
- Solo retreats don’t have to be elaborate or expensive
- Being in relationship with your book
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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This is the final week of Nicola’s mini-series about the three stages of writing a book: how to get started, what to think about in the middle, and areas to focus on when you’re moving towards completion. The core content gives an overview of Nicola’s new group programme: Birth Your Transformational Book (link below). This episode is all about the completion stage.
In this Episode:
- Getting to a place where you have a first draft of your book
- A coherent manuscript that takes your readers on the journey you decided on
- Do you want to invite someone to write a foreword for your book?
- Have you got an introduction or a prologue?
- Sharing your manuscript with trusted preview/beta/test readers
- Having blind spots with your writing
- Getting feedback and deciding whether to incorporate it
- Asking for endorsements, testimonials and reviews
- How are you going to publish your book?
- Bringing everything together, so you actually birth your book into the world
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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This is week two of Nicola’s three-part series that’s all about the stages of writing a book: how to get started (last week’s episode), what to think about in the middle, and what to focus on when you’re moving towards completion. The core content Nicola covers is the basis of her new group programme: Birth Your Transformational Book (link below). This episode is very much about the middle stage.
In this Episode:
- The middle stages of the book-writing process can feel a bit messy
- What transformation do you want to hold space for?
- Sharing your own story, a process, principles or themes, or a combination
- What do you want to leave your reader with?
- What do you want the reader to experience as they read your book?
- Harnessing the power and potency of fears and doubts
- Alchemizing fear and doubts into compelling writing
- How do you want to write your book?
- What kind of style do you have and how can you bring that through?
- Being curious about other writers you enjoy reading
- Using your own personal stories to illustrate key messages and themes
- Inviting your ‘too muchness’ in
- Sharing more of your story than feels comfortable
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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Nicola kicks off a new three-part series this week, focusing on the stages of writing a book: how to get started, what to think about in the middle, and what to focus on when you’re bringing everything together and moving towards completion. What she covers is actually the core content for her brand new group programme: Birth Your Transformational Book (link below). This episode is very much about the beginning stage.
In this Episode:
- Specific (and powerful) things to focus on
- Cultivating a dedicated writing practice
- Conceiving the book that wants to be birthed through you
- Your book wants to co-create with you
- Getting clear on your purpose – your why
- If you're feeling a call to write a book, there's a reason for that
- What key messages and learnings have you experienced?
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club – the first of 2024 – Nicola talks about mixing things up at the Unbound Press and a trio of ways you can work with them: The Unbound Writer's Club Membership, Birth Your Transformational Book, and Done-For You-Publishing Packages (links below). Which calls out to you?
In this Episode:
- Our four core values are freedom, creativity, community and generosity
- A desire to hold space for 1,000 magical writers to birth their books by May 2025
- Working with authors in different ways to open up the publishing playing field
- Retiring The Mastermind and launching new community spaces
- Guidance on self-publishing and hooking you up with trusted designers and editors
Links Mentioned:
Want to carve out time for your writing? Join The Unbound Writer's Club Membership
Ready to commit to your book and complete it over the next 12 months? Join the Birth Your Transformational Book group programme
Find out more about our Done-For-You Publishing Packages at The Unbound Press
Want to get a taste of the Unbound Writing community? Join Nicola's free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with magical unbound author Moriah Ama Hope, talking about what’s happened in her life since her book, ‘Labyrinth: My Journey to Belonging’, was released into the world. “I let the book lead last year, and life and love lead this year,” says Moriah.
In this Episode:
- Moriah and Julian’s love story
- Once you've written your book, it's like unleashing a magic
- Expect the unexpected
- Independence and empowerment alongside vulnerability and soft female energy
- Change and shock have their place in transformation
- What key piece of advice would Moriah give to people looking for love?
- Following your intuition and self-love
- Being at peace with your life and clear about what you want
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Nicola’s Compelling Confidence programme
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Moriah Ama Hope on Instagram or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with inspirational unbound author Sarah Wheeler, celebrating her second groundbreaking book – Enough! Healing from Patriarchy's Curse of Too Much and Not Enough – making her way into the world. It dives into recovery from perfectionism, developing body acceptance, owning your sexual sovereignty, recognising abuse of power in destructive cults, and much more...
In this Episode:
- Self-given permission to do what you want for the reasons you want
- What called Sarah to write ‘Enough!’?
- Swinging pendulum between believing you're not enough and too much
- Relationship between Sarah’s two books
- Chanda and Munda: too much and not enough
- Self-censoring when you're writing
- Get your pen, sit, write, and it's enough
- Writing from your body
- Books have their own timing
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Nicola’s Compelling Confidence programme
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Sarah Wheeler by email, or via her website.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with magical unbound author Michelle Minnikin about her recently birthed creation ‘Good Girl Deprogramming: Unleash The Rebel Within’ – a transformational book that dives into the insidious ways women are coerced into conforming to a narrow set of behaviours and attitudes, and how they can break free from those constraints.
In this Episode:
- Why was Michelle called to write Good Girl Deprogramming?
- How coercive control relates to the idea of the good girl
- Reading Michelle’s book in community
- Ways of controlling and keeping us in our box
- Unbinding from conditioning
- What journey does Michelle take the reader on?
- How did Michelle come up with the idea of incorporating a quiz into her book?
- Michelle’s book-writing process
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Nicola’s Compelling Confidence programme
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Michelle Minnikin on her website or LinkedIn.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, we’re celebrating the fifth anniversary of our soul-led publishing community for magical women writing word-changing books!
To mark the occasion, we asked our wonderful authors to share the biggest transformation they’ve experienced over the last five years, what they find most powerful about being part of the Unbound Press, and their hopes for the next half a decade.
Links Mentioned:
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram here, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with our authors:Jo Gifford - Instagram / website
Sonraya Grace - Instagram / website / Facebook
Victoria Smisek - website / email
Trudi Rember - website
Terri Hofstetter - Instagram
Tara Jackson - Instagram / website / Facebook
Rachel B - website / Instagram / LinkedIn / Twitter
Patricia Langton - Facebook
Natalie Farrell - Instagram
Holly Copeland - website
Em Mulholland - Instagram
Ceryn Rowntree - website / Instagram
Caroline Britton - website / Instagram
Anna Sansom - website / Instagram / Facebook
Anna Bromley - website / Facebook
Alison Shaloe - website /Instagram
Abi Shaw - Instagram / Facebook
Moriah Ama Hope - website
Yolandi Boshoff - Instagram / website
Angie Brierheart - website
Mariella Pearson - Instagram
Susan Cadley - website / Instagram / Facebook
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with inspirational author Marianna Pease about her recently birthed book ‘Pandemic Mom: Meditations on New Motherhood During the Pandemic & During Divorce’ – part memoir, part healing balm for women who find themselves “in a dark night of the soul without a light”. There's so much creativity streaming through Marianna – she writes a blog, hosts a podcast, and runs an online vintage clothing store, where she sells her ‘I Make My Own Luck’ affirmation deck.
In this Episode:
- What made Marianna decide to write her book?
- Writing from your most authentic place
- Capturing emotions in writing
- Marianna’s writing practice
- Writing in non-traditional ways
- Who is Marianna’s book for?
- Reclaiming your power
- Self-worth and empowerment
- Emotional healing and hope after divorce
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
The 2023 Unbound Writing Challenge
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Nicola’s Compelling Confidence programme
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Marianna Pease on her website, Instagram and Substack.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola reveals her vision for the future and talks about this year’s Unbound Writing Challenge. Taking place from Monday, November 20th until Wednesday 22nd, it’s three magical days of free online training! Click here for more info and to sign up.
In this Episode:
- Supporting aspiring authors in new ways
- Your book is a magical portal
- Who is the Unbound Writing Challenge for?
- Getting into momentum and activating your inner unbound author
- Think of the Unbound Writing Challenge as a magical mystery tour
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
The 2023 Unbound Writing Challenge
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Nicola’s Compelling Confidence programme
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s inspired by a conversation that took place during her Compelling Confidence programme – it focused on fears, doubts and resistance that bubble up around our book-writing journeys, and how to alchemize them.
In this Episode:
- The world we live in can criticise, ridicule and misunderstand
- Protecting ourselves from loss, criticism, disappointment…
- Acknowledging it's never going to feel entirely safe to share our words
- Cultivating a brave space rather than a safe space
- Following your courageous, creative heart as you write your book
- What do you need and want in place to create a brave space for your words?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Nicola’s Compelling Confidence programme
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola answers a question that came up in her Compelling Confidence programme: “Do you have tips on how to really connect with your authentic voice?”. Listen in for a trio of pointers, including experimenting with speaking your words, rather than writing them.
In this Episode:
- Allowing yourself to be fully and freely expressed on the page
- Self-monitoring, self-monitoring, self-monitoring
- Inviting the quality of ‘too much’ into your words
- Asking the question: “Is this coming from my ‘good girl’ or my unbound self?
- Being gentle and compassionate with yourself
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Nicola’s Compelling Confidence programme
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, we’re revisiting an archive episode that’s all about how to organise your writing and bring your book into a coherent form. Join Nicola as she offers valuable tips and guidance, including typing up each section and playing around with the structure.
In this Episode:
- The journey you take your reader on
- Having a physical representation of your book
- The importance of sharing your book with others
- Bringing pleasure into your writing
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Nicola’s Compelling Confidence programme
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is solo, talking about journaling, anchoring yourself into your vision, and gently coming out of the shadows to be fully who you are.
In this Episode:
- What are we here for?
- Nicola’s 2019 vision for the Unbound Press
- What will the next evolution of the Unbound Press look like?
- Who is the unbound approach to life for?
- Remembering who you are and what you're here for
- Honing your craft and mining your wisdom
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Nicola’s Compelling Confidence programme
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with inspirational and playful author Anna Sansom about her recently birthed creation: Wake Up Your Dragon (and reclaim your power in midlife) – a little book of hope and uplift for folks going through menopause. It’s a quick and easy read – with pictures – but also super powerful.
In this Episode:
- Playing, experimenting and going off in different directions
- What inspired Anna to create Wake Up Your Dragon?
- Allowing things to emerge and happen on their own timeline
- Inner knowing and remembrance
- Finding your dragon and reclaiming your fire
- Being witnessed, understood, and not feeling alone
- How has navigating midlife perimenopause influenced Anna’s writing?
- Retaining your desire for desire
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Anna Sansom on her website, Instagram and Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with magical unbound author Yolandi Boshoff about creating an audiobook for The Starseed Sacred Circle. Yolandi’s transformative book takes you on a journey of self-discovery, equipping you with life-changing processes to weave into your lives.
In this Episode:
- The importance of the spoken voice
- Letting go of judgment and setting yourself free
- Why did Yolandi create an audio version?
- Practical process of recording an audiobook
- Reclaiming your voice and wisdom
- Connecting with your words in a different way when you read them out loud
- Unbinding from the patriarchy
- What’s Yolandi working on at the moment?
- Trusting the puzzle pieces will fall into place
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Yolandi Boshoff on Instagram, Facebook, or via her website.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is solo, sharing five tips around becoming a more confident writer, from clarity of purpose to acknowledging and welcoming doubts. It's all well and good knowing you’re meant to write a book, but often, fears and doubts get in the way. Do you relate to that?
In this Episode:
- Anchoring into confidence around your writing
- Getting to a place of readiness to write your book
- Gaining clarity through writing
- Finding your unique perspective and understanding
- Becoming confident through taking action
- Creating a dedicated writing practice
- Sharing your work in some way
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Nicola’s free ‘Get Book Ready’ Facebook Group
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is solo, inviting you to reflect on what you want to create, the qualities you want to invite into your process, and the support you need. Regular intention setting is really powerful, wherever you are on your book-writing journey.
In this Episode:
- Books have their own sense of timing
- Savouring the whole journey
- Setting intentions around what you want to experience
- Being as intentional as possible, so you can really reap the benefits
- Setting intentions but holding them lightly, knowing they’ll shift and change
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with magical unbound author Sharon Brown about Daily Spirit Animal Guidance, her recently released book that’s filled with 365 channelled messages from the spirit animal realm.
In this Episode:
- How did Sharon start connecting with spirit animal guides?
- How do animal spirit guides speak to Sharon?
- Connecting with your spirit animal guide
- The importance of artwork in Daily Spirit Animal Guidance
- What's like the funniest message Sharon’s received?
- Fear around sharing channelled messages in a book
- Allowing the process to unfold in the way it needs to
- How does Sharon imagine people using her book?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
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Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
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The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
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Connect with Sharon Brown on her website, via Instagram, or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Carrie Myers about Sensual Soul Shine, a collaborative book she’s creating with the Unbound Press. They also invite four of the current contributors to share what sensuality means to them. Are you up for a sensual September? Click here for the Sensual Soul Shine invitation page.
In this Episode:
- What called Carrie to the project?
- The different layers of sensuality
- What does sensuality mean to Carrie and Nicola?
- What does feminine energy mean to Carrie?
- Bringing balance back into our lives
- Remembering that feminine beings are built for pleasure
- There's so much power in coming together
- Reclaiming women's rights to pleasure
- Paving the way for a different path for yourself and the next generations
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Sign up for Sensual Soul Shine here
Free Sensual Soul Shine Journal prompts
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Carrie Myers on her website or via Instagram.
Connect with Annette Vaucanson Kelly on Substack or via Instagram.
Connect with Elizabeth Nguyen on Facebook or via Instagram here and here.
Connect with Heather Robbins on her website, via Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Katie May on her website or via Instagram.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Mariella Pearson about her recently birthed book, ‘Libidos and Life Lessons’. It started more as a MENmoir and turned into a MEmoir – Mariella’s brave, honest and beautiful journey through life, from thinking men and relationships defined her to realising neither did.
In this Episode:
- Why did Mariella decide to write Libidos and Life Lessons?
- Being as authentic as you possibly can
- The way Mariella’s voice really comes through
- What was it like for Mariella, revisiting her life experiences?
- Who is Mariela’s book for?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Mariella Pearson on Instagram.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In the final edition of The Unbound Archives, our mini summer series, Nicola revisits a powerful episode that dives into the completion process for your book, and how to know when it’s finished. When you have the first draft of your manuscript, what do you do next? Listen in for tons of juicy insights.
In this Episode:
- Not letting fears and doubts get in the way
- Experiencing that sense of completion
- The journey you want to take your reader on
- Letting your book be complete and knowing it's enough
- Asking someone else read your manuscript
- Reading your book out loud and why that’s beneficial
- Making your book intimate and personal
- Celebrating the completion of your first draft
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In the next edition of our Unbound Archives summer series, Nicola reshares a solo episode – ironic, given it focuses on creating community around your writing. Rather than waiting until your book is released into the world, why not invite people to go on the journey with you?
In this Episode:
- The concept of community
- Your book can activate a sense of community
- Feeling into the quality of connection (not the quantity)
- Broadening your perspective of what community is
- Connecting for the joy of it
- The intention you hold for the community you want to create
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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Continuing with our Unbound Archives summer series, Nicola reshares an Unbound Womxn author discussion about creating a writing practice that works for you. She’s joined by three magical authors – Ceryn Rowntree, Alison Shaloe and Dainei Tracy – who offer insights into their process.
In this Episode:
- Writing practices ebb and flow
- Different ways to approach your writing
- The cyclical nature of your writing practice
- Bringing pleasure into the writing process
- Special ways to set up your writing space
- Silence versus noise when writing
- Recording ideas on your phone
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Alison Shaloe on Facebook or Instagram or Instagram.
Connect with Ceryn Rowntree on her website, Facebook or Instagram.
Connect with Dainei Tracy on Facebook or Instagram.
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This summer, Nicola has something special for the Unbound Writer’s Club – she’s diving into the Unbound Archives, revisiting some of our most powerful and beneficial episodes, helping you get into momentum with your writing and reach a place where you can complete your book. This week, Nicola explores how to share your story, even when fears and doubts bubble up. She’s joined by three inspirational unbound authors – Victoria Smisek, Natalie Farrell and Zoë Foster – who share their wisdom, experiences, advice and encouragement.
In this Episode:
- Working more in alignment
- Sharing your story to raise awareness
- The right platform and place in time to share your story
- What makes your story so important?
- Magic, alchemy, authenticity, and going all in
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Victoria on her website or by email.
Connect with Natalie on her website and Instagram.
Connect with Zoë on her website or Instagram.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with inspirational author Anna Bromley about her recently released book, ‘A Wild Adventure on the Big C: My Journey of Natural Healing for Cancer’. We’re deeply honoured to be part of this wise and evocative book.
In this Episode:
- Anna’s courageous journey
- How did Anna’s book evolve?
- What fears bubbled up for Anna?
- Walking a self-sovereign path
- How did Anna come up with the title for her book?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Anna Bromley on her website or Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with magical author Zoë Foster about her recently released bountiful book, It's Written in the Stars – a multi-sensory, immersive experience like no other!
In this Episode:
- Creating from your pure soul channel
- We’re in a world that doesn't feel safe most of the time
- Showing up, even though you don't know what's going to come through
- An ongoing process of trust
- Vulnerability after you’ve shared something essential
- Being your full creative self
- What has Zoë learnt about herself throughout the book-writing process?
- Different layers of expression
- Allowing yourself to take up space
- What's Zoë intention for the reader?
- Support and love are infused into the whole of Zoë’s book
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Zoë Foster on Substck, her website or Instagram.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about releasing your book into the world in the most powerful and joyful way. The word joyful is really important, because however you decide to launch your book, you get to do it your way, and in a way that feels good.
In this Episode:
- Looking at what other authors are doing
- What feels good for you?
- Nicola’s book launch experiences
- Previewing a few chapters of your book
- Inviting other people to share your book
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Kelly Lacey & Love Books Tours.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about unbound writing sprints: a commitment to show up every day for a certain period of time for your book-writing process. She shares top tips and invites you to post about your experiences. Are you feeling the call?
In this Episode:
- What’s a writing sprint?
- How to get the most out of a writing sprint
- Writing in a way that feels natural, easeful and joyful
- Five minutes of writing can be incredibly powerful
- Getting into momentum with your book in a way that doesn’t feel rigid
- Sticking with processes that feel good
- How can you bring pleasure into your writing practice?
- Getting into the habit of asking “When am I going to write today (not if)?”
- Piggybacking off non-negotiable habits
- Not putting expectations on your writing
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks to magical unbound author Patricia Langton about ‘Stones In My Bones’, her book about connection to place, ancient landscape, our ancestors, and ultimately ourselves. Stones In My Bones is being birthed into the world on May 18th!
In this Episode:
- Writing from an authentic place within yourself
- Soul-based writing that’s freeing, expansive and heart-based
- Speaking your truth from the heart
- A transformational and alchemical process
- Channelled writing coming through
- Sharing beautiful, ancient stories
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Patricia Langton on Facebook.
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola celebrates three years of the Unbound Writer’s Club podcast by sharing lessons and advice, including infusing a sense of community and keeping things simple.
In this Episode:
- Why it's not about the numbers
- The power of your voice and the spoken word
- Deepening the connection with your existing audience
- Why we don’t get hung up on tech
- Getting support in place
- Inviting the energy of collaboration into your podcast
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Jo Gifford on Instagram or via her website.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks to Rachael B, the magical author of ‘Sauce Will Thicken on Standing’, a poetry collection that’s being released through the Unbound Press. We love that title! The “cauldron of soul-soothing words” is out on May 12th, or you can pre-order a copy now.
In this Episode:
- Rachael’s writing process
- Nicola and Rachael meeting in a dreamscape
- Rachael’s five-day self-care challenge
- Channelling and downloading
- Poems coming through as images and translating them into words
- What made Rachael start writing poetry?
- Expressing the exiled parts of yourself
- Using words to try and make sense of the world
- What themes come through in Sauce Will Thicken on Standing?
- What else is bubbling up for Rachael?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Rachael B via her website, on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter.
Links mentioned by Rachael:
Five-day self-care challenge
Being part of From the Ashes
The Most Radical Way to Heal: Internal Family Systems with Dr Becky Kennedy
Dawn Lucht Heart-Full Academy
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about ways to get endorsements and forewords for your book, before it makes its way out into the world – a question that often comes up in the unbound community.
In this Episode:
- How different aspects of the book publishing process can unfold
- Choosing who to write endorsements and a foreword
- The age of the micro-influencer
- Trusting who springs to mind when it comes to endorsements and a foreword
- Giving people a reasonable amount of time to endorse your book
- Endorsements and forewords don’t have to be written by ‘big names’
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola dives into marketing, and how you can spread your magic and message more powerfully. With that in mind, Nicola shares three ways you can attract new people into your world. She also provides information about her upcoming “Create a Community Experience” live round – a way of taking your readers – existing and new – on a journey with you and deepening connections. Listen in for more info and click the link below to sign up.
In this Episode:
- Getting your book into the hands of the people who need and want to read it
- Marketing with an element of ease, and in a way that feels good
- Growing your audience and attracting new readers in ways that feel aligned
- The benefits of being a guest on someone else’s podcast
- Collaborating with others to grow your audience
- Marketing isn’t all about social media
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about promoting yourself, your book and your work. Don’t run away! She also shares information about her forthcoming “Create a Community Experience” live round. Tune in for more info and click the link below to sign up.
In this Episode:
- Inviting people to be part of something
- Taking people on an online journey
- Creating engagement within the unbound writing community
- Growing your audience
- Deepening your connection with existing people
- Nicola’s experience of running a community event
- Feeling that deep sense of connection with yourself and other people
- Different ways to create a community experience
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
Create a Community Experience
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola asks: “What does it actually mean to walk an unbound path?” Join us as we hear insights from some of the magical co-authors of Tales from the Unbound Path, our latest release at the Unbound Press. Tales from the Unbound Path is released on March 30th – we can’t wait for it to be out in the world.
In this Episode:
- Personal experiences of walking an unbound path
- Doing things your own unique way
- Remembering who you truly are
- Finding your voice and worth and removing your masks
- Why did the authors feel called to contribute to Tales from the Unbound Path?
- What inspired the magical beings to write their particular piece?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Becky Handley on Instagram.
Connect with Carrie Myers on her website or via Instagram.
Connect with Alison Shaloe on her website orInstagram.
Connect with Karen Marshall on Instagram.
Connect with Terri Hofstetter on Instagram.
Connect with Diana Morgan on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Lindsey Elms on Facebook.
Connect with Helen Llewellyn on Facebook.
Connect with Susi McWilliam on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Rionach Aiken on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Charlie Allcock on Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound writer, businesswoman, Clairvoyant CLEARer and Spiritual Declutter Carlyn Creel. Carolyn’s powerful book – The CLEAR Method – is released into the world on March 23rd. It’s here to shake (and vac) up the way you live, by helping you cleanse the physical (and emotional) clutter of life.
In this Episode:
- What does C.L.E.A.R. stand for?
- Carolyn’s spiritual journey
- Women expressing themselves in their own way
- Learning your craft
- The correlation between cleaning and energy work
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Carolyn Creel on her website, via Instagram or on Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, we share insights from five magical members of the Unbound Writing Mastermind – our group container of support, where women journey together as they birth the books their soul is calling them to write. If it sounds appealing, the doors are open – get in touch with Nicola or click the link below for more info.
In this Episode:
- Feeling the call to be more deeply supported
- Bringing the full expression of who you are
- Transformation, healing, transmutation and alchemy
- The silver circle of light that surrounds the Unbound Writing Mastermind
- Deep connection, community and sisterhood
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Lola Fayemi on her website or via Instagram.
Connect with Holly Yandall via Instagram.
Connect with Rachel Haywood via Instagram.
Connect with Brier Heart on her website.
Connect with Dainei Tracy on Facebook or Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound creatrix Victoria Margaux Nielsen. Victoria’s powerful book – Find Your Way Home – takes you through her journey of choosing joy, connecting with her intuition, and honouring her inner child after a silent miscarriage.
In this Episode:
- Removing the rules around writing
- Being open to co-creation
- Coming back to yourself
- Healing your inner child
- What's next for Victoria?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Victoria Margaux Nielsen on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Spirit Mamas on their website or Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola shares the Unbound Womxn author discussion that took place recently. This quarter, the focus is on mother: mothering, mother energy, and in particular how that relates to our books and birthing them into the world. Nicola’s joined by four magical unbound writers – Emma While, Sarah Lloyd, Debra Kilby and Alison Shaloe – who share their wisdom, experiences and advice.
In this Episode:
- Preconceived ideas around birthing a book
- Unbinding yourself from rigid expectations
- Having both mother energy and power
- Co-creation: being nurtured and supported
- Honouring the rites of passage of writing a book
- Having a community around you is absolutely key
- Alison Gopnik’s the Gardener and the Carpenter
- Normalising the mixed emotions around releasing your book
- Creating the right conditions for your book to thrive
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Emma While on Facebook or Instagram.
Connect with Sarah Lloyd on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Debra Kilby via her website, Facebook or Instagram.
Connect with Alison Shaloe on her website orInstagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about our Bring Your Book to Life Micro Audio Summit – a collection of content-rich interviews with a selection of magical unbound creatrixes. The free event launches on February 23rd – sign up for access to all the interviews here (registration is open until Sunday, February 26th). During the podcast episode, Nicola offers you a sneak peek of Bring Your Book to Life, by sharing short nuggets of each interview.
In this Episode:
- Creating a writing practice that feels amazing for you by working with the Seasons of Creation and colour, with Tara Jackson.
- Conceiving the most powerful idea for the book you're really here to write, with Nicola Humber and Jo Gifford.
- How to move through fears that can bubble up around sharing your story, with Dr Sarah Coxon.
- Harnessing the power of community and intuition, and self-publishing vs. traditional, with Kate Taylor.
- Things to be aware of when it comes to book design, to ensure the visuals match the brilliance of the content, with Leah Kent.
- Crowdfunding your book and building an audience at the same time, with Victoria Bennett and Charmaine Hammond.
- The power of tricking yourself into marketing by creating a newsletter, with Amber Petty.
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks to magical unbound creatrix Ali Roe about illustrating the #unbound365 journal – a daily invitation to be unbound, check in with your true self and share from that place. Nicola released the journal into the world at the end of 2022 – you can buy your copy via the link below.
In this Episode:
- Connecting to your intuition
- Ideas having their own life
- The #unbound365 journal as an entity
- Climbing courage hill
- A willingness to be vulnerable enough to be rejected
- Turning up authentically has ripple effects
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Ali Roe via Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks to magical unbound author Carrie Myers. The discussion centers on Sensual Soul Shine, Carrie’s forthcoming collaborative book about women reclaiming their sensuality, softness and confidence. She wants the book to create an orgasm in the world – a ripple effect through women. If you’re feeling the call to contribute, check out our invitation page.
In this Episode:
- Capturing the journeys women have been on
- Personal connection with yourself
- Owning your pleasure and confidence
- The power of journaling
- What's Carrie’s intention for Sensual Soul Shine?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Carrie Myers on her website or via Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, eight unbound authors discuss ‘Wake Up Mother: Stories and Wisdom Shared by Mothers’, their newly-released collaborative book. Curated by Sarah Lloyd, it’s about women who’ve felt lost, alone, unsupported, dimmed, squashed, uncomfortable and unable to speak their truth for fear of it highlighting the shadows. It’s for the Mothers, Sisters, Witches, Bitches, Whores and Good Girls; it’s for the mothers of children, furry friends, businesses and creative projects.
In this Episode:
- Why is Wake Up Mother so important at this time?
- What made the contributors want to be part of Wake Up Mother?
- How did the contributors choose what to share?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Zoë Foster on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Alison Cooper on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Aimee Strongman on her website, Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Ceryn Rowntree on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Dulcie Batt on her website, Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Kathy Bell on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Debra Kilby via her website or Instagram.
Connect with Sarah Lloyd on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola chats to Elizabeth Nguyen about her recently birthed book Aloha Vietnam, a fictional story about Anh, an adolescent girl, and her family – Vietnamese refugees who settle in Honolulu. It follows their journey of discovering a new land and the cross-cultural experiences that come with that, as well as grappling with Anh’s bipolar diagnosis and navigating mental health. Join us as we explore Elizabeth’s book-writing process and much more.
In this Episode:
- Did Elizabeth always know Aloha Vietnam would be a fictional book?
- Multi-dimensional healing
- Decreasing stigma around mental illness
- Where did the title Aloha Vietnam come from?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Elizabeth Nguyen on her website, via her Facebook, or Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about how to organise your writing and bring your book into a coherent form. She offers valuable tips and guidance, including typing up each section and playing around with the structure.
In this Episode:
- The journey you're taking your reader on
- Having a physical representation of your book
- The importance of sharing your book with others
- Bringing pleasure into your writing
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
What to do when you have your first draft
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
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In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s joined by unbound author Sonraya Grace.
Sonraya’s powerful book ‘Mother Earth is Calling You: Winter Wisdom’ was released into the world earlier this month – an inner journey to activate your creative power and who you truly are as a cyclical being.
In this Episode:
- Being completely free in your writing and self-expression
- Different books have different energies
- Sonraya’s booking writing process
- Reclaiming feminine power and wisdom
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Sonraya Grace on Instagram, via her website, or Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola and Jo Gifford look back on 2022 – including the release of 15 books, what they’ve learned, and plans for 2023. What an incredible 12 months it’s been for the Unbound Press.
In this Episode:
- The Unbound Press’ team culture
- Being an anchor for others
- The energies that are held within and by the Unbound Press
- Riding the waves of energetic chaos
- Creating more in-person community
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Jo Gifford on Instagram or via her website.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola shares ways you can work with her and the Unbound Press in 2023 to birth your book into the world. Something we know for sure is that your book is needed. Are you feeling the call?
In this Episode:
- Becoming more of who you’re here to be through writing your book
- Having a container of support is really important
- What’s the Unbound Writing Mastermind?
- Becoming an author with the Unbound Press
- Nicola’s experience of writing her first book: Heal Your Inner Good Girl
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is solo, talking about her new creation that’s just made its way into the world – the unbound365 journal. It’s the first journal released through the Unbound Press, and it’s available to buy now (link below). Join us as Nicola shares juicy insights about bringing the unbound365 journal together.
In this Episode:
- Our creations are often different to what we imagine
- Fears and doubts bubbling up
- Nicola’s journal coming through at the Unbound Writing Wilding Retreat
- A co-creative process between you and your book
- Accessing your own guidance and wisdom
- Nicola’s experience with a fox in Southampton
- Shifting the paradigm
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Buy Nicola’s unbound365 journal here
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola celebrates the release of ‘Soul Shine: Excavate Your Light and Claim Your Soul's Purpose’, a collaborative book created by Carrie Myers and a collection of women who choose to shine. Join us as we share snippets from some of the contributors. As you read the book, you’ll journey through the struggles, self-doubt, and pain that 26 women have overcome. Do you recall when you first dulled your shine?
In this Episode:
- Dulling your shine for the comfort of others
- What needs to be shared with this world?
- What does it mean to soul shine?
- Everyone has the capacity to shine brightly
- Soul sister wounds
- Lifting each other up
- Being your full authentic self
- Light dimmers and how to look out for them
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Ali Roe via Instagram.
Connect with Aparna Vemula via Instagram.
Connect with Babita Gill via Instagram.
Connect with Caroline Palmy via Instagram.
Connect with Carrie Myers via Instagram.
Connect with Emma While via Instagram.
Connect with Heather Robbins via Instagram.
Connect with Jacqui McGinn via Instagram.
Connect with Jennie Wise via Instagram.
Connect with Jody Woodbridge via Instagram.
Connect with Madeline Myers via Instagram.
Connect with Michelle Millson via Instagram.
Connect with Sarah Collinge via Instagram.
Connect with Charlie Allcock via Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Alison Shaloe. Alison’s book ‘Baby Talk to Me’ was released into the world earlier this month. In it, Alison shares her experiences of communicating with babies before life, in pregnancy, during birth and after birth loss. The babies have much to share with you.
In this Episode:
- How did Alison first get the call to write Baby Talk to Me?
- Alison’s original intention to write about the emotional aspect of breastfeeding
- Women becoming disconnected from themselves
- Alison’s fast track to spirituality
- Healing the emotional wounds of women
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Alison Shaloe on her website, Facebook, Instagram orInstagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Brier Heart. Brier’s book ‘Menopause Wisdoms: Women's Stories of Becoming Crone’ was released into the world last month – it invites you to reconsider the old, worn-out narrative about what it is to be a menopausal woman.
In this Episode:
- Brier’s perspective of what menopause is
- Connecting to your internal authority, your truth, and your wisdom
- Supporting women through the initiation of menopause
- Living your truth and expressing from that place
- Aligning yourself back to Mother Earth
- Brier’s hopes for every woman who reads Menopause Wisdoms
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Challenge
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Brier Heart on her website.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about the magic of community and shares information about the forthcoming Unbound Writing Challenge – a transformational five-day mentoring journey that starts on Monday, November 14th. When you join, you have the chance to win a full publishing package with The Unbound Press. Click on the link below for more info and to sign up.
In this Episode:
- Bringing through the new ways
- Relating, connecting and communing
- The beauty of what happens when we come together
- Women allowing themselves to be witnessed – fully seen and heard
- How to create a community experience around your writing
- Holding space through your book
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Challenge
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Moriah Hope. Moriah’s book ‘Labyrinth: My Journey to Belonging’ was recently released into the world – personal stories of life, loss, and the pathway to finding true, inner belonging. Join us as we delve into Moriah’s writing experience, and how one book transformed into another.
In this Episode:
- Writing at your own pace
- Completely trusting the process
- Sharing yourself on a deep level
- Listening to the storyteller
- Moriah’s reluctance to write a book all about her
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Moriah Hope on her website, via Instagram, or Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Sarah Wheeler.
Sarah’s empowering book ‘Shadow and Rose: A Soulful Guide for Women Recovering from Rape and Sexual Violence’ came out as a self-published ebook in May 2021, and was released in paperback through The Unbound Press in July 2022. Join us as we explore Sarah’s experience of writing Shadow and Rose.
In this Episode:
- Mistakes are part of the process
- Where does the power lie in your life?
- Power grabs: society, your upbringing and your education
- The F word: forgiveness
- Putting the reader in the driver's seat
- Being a conduit for the message you want to put out there
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Sarah Wheeler by email, or via her website.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Tara Jackson. Tara’s had a busy year publishing ‘Embodied Creation’ and ‘Embodied Wealth’ with the Unbound Press, as well as an oracle card deck called Embodied Wisdom. Join us as we delve into Tara’s creative process and the role colour plays.
In this Episode:
- The process of co-creation
- Moments of flow, magic and inspiration
- Getting out of your own way
- Your books end up being what they want to be
- What Tara feels true wealth is
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Tara Jackson on Instagram, via her website, or on Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Debra Kilby. Debra’s powerful book ‘Rosa's Choice: Healing the Wounds of the Mother’ offers a behind-the-scenes peek into life before life, revealing the choices made by spirit babies. This book is not only for women on their journey to motherhood, but for all those whose role it is to support them, their babies and Mother Earth herself.
In this Episode:
- Rosa’s Choice: a book about creation itself
- The process of bringing everything into balance
- Fear of the feminine
- Responsibility and blame
- Not listening to the narratives around you
- The controlling of women's choices
- The idea of a spiritual fertility clinic
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Debra Kilby via her website or Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Ceryn Rowntree. Ceryn’s powerful book The Divine Feminist was released into the world last year – an exploration of the dualities that exist within our world and how the ‘feminine’ side of the spectrum has come to be considered less than. The Divine Feminist features in the Unbound Press Book Club this lunar month – click on the link below to sign up.
In this Episode:
- Feminism, but witchy
- Feminism, but connected
- Feminism, but deeper
- A journey back to a place of alignment and balance
- Our very nature is to be humanly, soulfully divine
- Reflecting on the state of the world
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Ceryn Rowntree on Instagram, her website, or via Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Trudi Remer, and Jo Gifford, who’s part of the Unbound Press family. Trudi recently turned her inspirational memoir ‘Adventure After’ into an audiobook with The Unbound Press. Jo and her team handled the recording process and supported Trudi on her journey. Join us to hear juicy insights from both sides.
In this Episode:
- The challenges of narrating
- Love and passion rather than a skill set
- Trudi’s advice for anyone thinking about creating an audiobook
- Looking after your nervous system
- How does Jo’s tech support work?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Trudi Remer on her website.
Connect with Jo Gifford on Instagram or via her website.
Book tickets for The Awakening festival here, where the Unbound Press is holding sessions.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Sarika Jain. Sarika’s powerful book The 90-Day Soulmate Plan was released into the world on September 13th – a new and revolutionary way of attracting your soulmate and creating the relationship you’ve only dreamed of up until now.
In this Episode:
- Did Sarika always want to write?
- Masculine and feminine sides
- We all have the wisdom within us to be in healthy relationships
- What is a soulmate to Sarika?
- Sharing chapters with a set group of readers for feedback
- Building an author platform
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Sarika Jain on her website.
Book tickets for The Awakening festival here, where the Unbound Press is holding sessions.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, we share insights from five of the magical members of the Unbound Writing Mastermind – a group process that Nicola holds space for. It started back in August 2018 and is still going strong. Why? Because it’s evolved and shifted over time. But what’s stayed the same is the community it provides. Listen in for a taste of what it’s like to be held within the Unbound Writing Mastermind. And if it sounds appealing, doors are open for our new season – click the link below for more info and to join.
In this Episode:
- Nicola’s approach to writing a book
- Feeling the call to be more deeply supported
- Being held in sisterhood
- Individual and collective growth
- Being inspired and heard and honouring your cyclical nature
- Sharing fears and doubts and emerging stronger
- Being more in alignment with the truth of who you are
- Learning about your creative process
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writing Mastermind waitlist
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Lola Fayemi on her website or via Instagram.
Connect with Holly Yandall via Instagram.
Connect with Rachel Haywood via Instagram.
Connect with Brier Heart on her website.
Connect with Dainei Tracy on Facebook or Instagram.
Book tickets for The Awakening festival here, where the Unbound Press is holding sessions.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Victoria Smisek. Victoria’s powerful book Falling Awake was released into the world last year, and is a memoir about how we continue to re-create early experiences throughout our lives, until we wake up enough to realise and set ourselves free. Falling Awake features in the Unbound Press Book Club this month – click on the link below to sign up.
In this Episode
- Not having a set of writing rules or guidelines
- Trusting in the process
- Victoria’s writing circle and her forthcoming retreat in Portugal
- How has Victoria’s relationship with Falling Awake changed?
- Breaking away from programming and conditioning
- Coming into greater awareness
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Victoria Smisek on her website or by email.
Click here for information about Victoria’s upcoming ‘The Heroine’s Journey Retreat’.
Book tickets for The Awakening here, where the Unbound Press is holding sessions.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
This episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club talks about The Awakening, an upcoming event The Unbound Press is holding sessions at. During the episode, you’ll hear from a selection of magical authors about what they have planned for The Awakening. The wellbeing festival takes place over on the Isle of Wight on September 24th and 25th. To grab your ticket, head to the link below.
In this Episode:
- Writing through the wildness of life with Jo Gifford
- Honouring your creative desires with Helen Grace MacGregor
- Exploring the power of your voice with Natalie Farrell
- Channelling and developing your intuition with Debra Kilby
- Tapping into the energetic rhythms of Earth with Project Earthwork
- Listening to the wisdom of your feminine power with Sonraya Grace
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Jo Gifford on Instagram.
Connect with Natalie Farrell on Instagram.
Connect with Helen Grace MacGregor on Instagram.
Connect with Debra Kilby on Instagram.
Connect with Project Earthwork on Instagram.
Connect with Sonraya Grace on Instagram.
Book tickets for The Awakening here, where the Unbound Press is holding sessions.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
This episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club is a bumper one, celebrating the release of our latest collaborative book ‘Shakti Farts & Belly Laughs: What really happens when wild women gather’. Shakti Farts is about a group of magical women who gather on retreat in Glastonbury in the aftermath of Covid. Listen in as Nicola chats to each unbound woman who contributed to the book. Indeed, she’s also one of the contributors.
In this Episode:
- Triggers and insecurities that come with being in community at a retreat
- Heart and head battles: breaking free and embracing connection versus anxiety
- Concern about how you’re going to be judged
- Creativity loves a sense of laughter, fun, playfulness, and letting go
- The fear of going into collective spaces
- A different kind of retreat with no rigid structure or leader
- A co-created experience that ebbed and flowed
- The fear of missing out
- The feeling of the black sheep
- Being courageously yourself, whatever that entails
- Celebrating and honouring women in business
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Sarah Lloyd on Instagram or via her website.
Connect with Yolandi Boshoff on Instagram or via her website.
Connect with Em Mulholland on Instagram.
Connect with Katherine Crawley on her website or via Facebook.
Connect with Kathy Bell on Instagram or via her website.
Connect with Zoe Foster on Instagram or via her website.
Connect with Katie Brockhurst on her website or via Substack.
Connect with Rachel Smithbone on Instagram, via her website, or Facebook.
Connect with Michelle Maslin-Taylor on Instagram or via her website.
Connect with Iona Russell on Instagram or via her website.
Books tickets for The Awakening here (the Unbound Press is holding sessions)
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Life Design & Business Empowerment Coach Kate Taylor is hosting and the guest is our very own Nicola Humber. Their conversation focuses on The Awakening festival and the magical sessions The Unbound Press is hosting. The wellbeing event takes place across the weekend of September 24th and 25th; to grab your tickets, head to the link below.
In this Episode:
- Magical women writing transformational books
- The importance of taking time out
- A platform for women's voices
- Giving women the space to own their voices and the ripple effect that has
- Listening, sharing, and being in community and among empowering voices
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Books tickets for The Awakening here.
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Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Jo Gifford. Jo’s magical book ‘Wild Currents: Poems On The Transformative Power of Water in Turbulent Times’ was released into the world on July 30th. It’s Jo’s story of how wild swimming saved her from heartbreak, grief and chronic pain.
In this Episode:
- How did Wild Currents come to be?
- Jo’s need to be near water
- The feral urge to strip off and get in the river
- Wild swimming as part of your spiritual practice
- The deeply transformative experience of cold water
- Why do we resist soul-aligned ideas?
- Self-doubt about your book
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Jo on Instagram or via her website.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Anna Sansom. Anna’s inspiring book Desire Lines was released into the world in 2019. It’s for women who want to know more about who they are as sexual beings, and the kind of book you can keep coming back to and uncovering different layers. Desire Lines features in the Unbound Press Book Club this month – click on the link below to sign up.
In this Episode:
- Desire Lines as an antidote to the tropes around women's sexuality
- Alternative perspectives on what it means to be a sexual person
- Desire Lines: more than a memoir
- A starting point for women to have explorations with their unique sexuality
- Desire Lines as the paths people take instead of the pre-assigned routes
- Enjoying pleasure in the body you have now
- Expanding what pleasure means to you and how you enjoy your body
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Anna on her website and Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
This episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club is introduced by our magical and oh-so-creative team member Jo Gifford, who reshares an old episode with you. Listen in to hear Nicola in conversation with Isobel Gatherer, an Intuitive Psychic and Channeller. As one of our most popular episodes, it’s a reminder that our archives are full of beautiful interviews, supportive conversations and valuable insights.
In this Episode:
- Working with guardian angels and spirit
- Getting in a motorhome and travelling
- Receiving a download and channelled writing
- Nicola’s angel reading by Isobel
- Staying on the side of positivity
- Making the present the most important part of your life
- Self-responsibility equals power and love
- Doing the work and teaching others
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Jo on Instagram or via her website.
Connect with Isobel on Instagram, Facebook or via her website.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
This episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club is a chance for us to catch our breath and explore the landscape we’re operating within as writers, publishers, creatives, readers, and women.
In this Episode:
- The book writing journey is one of transformation
- The unbound press is a cauldron of creativity and transformation
- Allowing your writing and publishing process to be pleasurable
- There are new ways wanting to come through
- Books still hold a lot of magic in themselves
- Books can complement anything new that’s coming through
- A shift away from the mass market to something more intimate
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola’s in conversation with unbound author Jennifer Flint. Jennifer’s inspiring book ‘Wild Egg: a story of one woman's search for her childfree life’ is released into the world this month. It’s for women who are questioning whether motherhood is their path, and those searching for a deeper experience of being alive, beyond the role of being a mother.
In this Episode:
- Jennifer’s unbound writing process
- Letting go of control and listening to what wants to come through
- Learning to trust yourself and the evolving process
- Moving your ego out of the way
- When did Jennifer’s writing journey with Wild Egg begin?
- The freedom of writing a novel
- How has Jennifer’s relationship with her book changed?
- The Wild Egg way of doing things
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Jennifer on Instagram or via email.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Caroline Britton. Caroline’s inspirational book ‘Coming Home to You: how to live a more connected, magical and authentic life’ was released into the world this month – it's a hand to hold when you feel disconnected from your true self, and a guide to gently nudge you back to yourself.
In this Episode:
- When did Caroline first start getting the call to write a book?
- Not getting hung up on the title of your book
- Taking energy and putting it into words
- What are you like in the face of adversity?
- Going beyond your insecurities
- Trusting yourself to write what needs to be written
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Caroline Britton on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about the completion process for your book, and how to know when your book is finished. When you get to that point – you have the first draft of your manuscript – what do you do with it and how do you edit it? Listen in for lots of juicy insights.
In this Episode
- Not letting fears and doubts get in the way
- Experiencing that sense of completion
- The journey you want to take your reader on
- Letting your book be complete and knowing it's enough
- Asking someone else read your manuscript
- Reading your book out loud and why that’s beneficial
- Making your book intimate and personal
- Celebrating the completion of your first draft
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is solo – ironic, given the focus is on creating community around your writing, a key aspect of the unbound approach. Rather than waiting until your book is out there in the world, take the opportunity to start calling in your people right from the beginning of the process. It’s about inviting people to go on the journey with you.
In this Episode:
- The concept of community
- Your book can activate a sense of community
- Feeling into the quality of connection (not the quantity)
- Broadening your perspective of what community is
- Connecting for the joy of it
- The intention you hold for the community you want to create
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola shares the Unbound Womxn author discussion that took place recently. This time around, it’s about creating a writing practice that works for you. Nicola is joined by three unbound authors – Ceryn Rowntree, Alison Shaloe and Dainei Tracy – who share their experiences, advice and encouragement. They’re all at different stages of their process, so it's interesting and super helpful to hear from each of them.
In this Episode:
- Writing practices ebb and flow
- Different ways to approach your writing
- The cyclical nature of your writing practice
- Bringing pleasure into the writing process
- Special ways to set up your space for writing
- Silence versus noise when writing
- Recording ideas on your phone
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Alison Shaloe on Facebook or Instagram or Instagram.
Connect with Ceryn Rowntree on her website, Facebook or Instagram.
Connect with Dainei Tracy on Facebook or Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Amy Babiarz. Amy’s book After the Last Fall was the first piece of fiction to be released through the Unbound Press. The book has a number of core themes that we dive into – magic is one of them. After the Last Fall features in the Unbound Press Book Club this month. Click on the link below to sign up – it’s free to join.
In this Episode:
- Multiple ways to be a woman
- Removing stigmas around mental health
- Positive LGBTQ representation
- The Hays Code
- Amy’s job as a social worker
- The importance of featuring After the Last Fall in June
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Amy on her website or on Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
This is a very special episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club: the two-year anniversary of the podcast.
We wanted to create something collaborative for you, bringing together the voices of our unbound writers.
Community is at the heart of everything we do at the Unbound Press.
With that in mind, we invited our authors to share who they've become since they've been part of the unbound process.
Immerse yourself in this episode, and feel free to share it with your friends and community.
In this Episode:
- Books having an energy of their own
- Becoming freer and healing wounds
- Connecting to your intuition
- Transformational journeys
- Trusting yourself and the creative process
- Becoming more unbound as a human
- The powerful connection and community within unbound
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Anna Sansom on her website.
Connect with Carol Cavalcante via her podcast.
Connect with Holly Yandall on her instagram.
Connect with Jo Gifford on her instagram.
Connect with Julia Poole on her website.
Connect with Lorraine Pannetier on her website.
Connect with Moriah Ama Hope on her website.
Connect with Natalie Farrell on her website.
Connect with Sarah Impey on her website.
Connect with Carrie Myers on her website.
Connect with Tara Jackson on Instagram.
Connect with Debra Kilby on her website.
Connect with Victoria Smisek on her website.
Connect with Patricia Langton on her website.
Connect with Sonraya Grace on her website.
Connect with Holly Copeland on her website.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola shares the Unbound Womxn author discussion that took place recently. This time around, the focus was on how to share your story, even when fears and doubts come up. Nicola is joined by three unbound authors – Victoria Smisek, Natalie Farrell and Zoë Foster – who share their wisdom, experiences, advice and encouragement.
In this Episode:
- Working more in alignment
- Sharing your story to raise awareness
- The right platform and place in time to share your story
- What makes your story so important?
- Magic, alchemy and authenticity, and going all in
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Victoria on her website.
Connect with Natalie on her website and Instagram.
Connect with Zoë on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Carol Cavalcante. Carol’s book of poetry – Growing Flowers from Within – was recently released into the world, expressing her feelings and struggles after facing a series of personal losses and uncertainties. The book inspires and empowers others going through their own personal dark night of the soul.
In this Episode:
- Expressing emotions via journaling
- Connecting more deeply with yourself
- Was it a conscious decision for Carol to write in a poetic way?
- Understanding your own flaws
- Being comfortable with your own emotions
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Carol via her podcast.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Tonia Gaudiuso. Tonia’s transformative book ‘PermissionTo Be Rich: 5 Steps to Become More Powerful Than Money’ features in the Unbound Press Book Club this month – click on the link below to sign up.
In this Episode:
- Leaving this planet in a better place than when we came into it
- Intentions for the individual reader, the world and the planet.
- Who is Tonia’s book for?
- A new mindset around how money can operate in the world
- Inviting your fear in, listening to it, but not letting it control you
- Clarity is the first step to creating freedom for yourself
- Tonia’s five F’s: focus, foundation, freedom, flow and fun
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Tonia G on her website, Instagram and Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about vision, and how to tap into the unbound vision for the book you're writing, the book you've written, or the book you're feeling called to write.
In this Episode:
- Being open to the possibility that your book is part of a greater vision
- Personal examples from Nicola regarding vision
- Being open to what might come and following the breadcrumbs of inspiration
- Paying attention to where your book wants to lead you, because it will tell you
- Activating expansion and abundance in your life
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola shares snippets from her Abundant Author workshop. Who is the workshop for? Coaches, healers and space holders who feel the call to write a transformational book. It’s for women who want their book to become the foundation for the work they're doing and the offerings they're sharing. It's for visionaries, pioneers, trailblazers, and anyone who’s bringing through the new ways. It’s also for people who’ve held back and dimmed their light in the past. In the enlightening workshop, Nicola talks about the key ingredient to writing a book that activates abundance in your life.
In this Episode:
- Bringing your full self to whatever you’re doing
- Fully expressing yourself in your writing and your process
- Letting go of expectations and conditioning
- Bringing your challenges to the page
- Writing in alignment with your cyclical nature
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator will be running again in September.
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola answers a question that came up in The Unbound Book Incubator: how do you come back to writing your book when you’ve drifted away from it? If you feel disconnected from your book but don’t want it to become a project you don’t complete, this episode is for you.
In this Episode:
- Making a decision that this time you’re going to do it differently
- Reconnecting with your vision for your book
- Putting accountability in place (it’s not a dirty word)
- Making a commitment to get back on the writing horse
- Being kind to yourself and making the writing process pleasurable
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Writer’s Club membership
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
The Unbound Book Incubator (running again in September)
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Melina Abbott. Melina’s inspiring book Sacred Selling is a guide to transforming your business and life, and it features in this month’s Unbound Press Book Club – click on the link below to sign up.
In this Episode:
- Being driven by helping people
- The dance between the spiritual and structure
- Who is Melina’s book for?
- Being in alignment with what you sell
- The journey you take your reader on
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Melina on her website or Instagram, or email her.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Brier Heart. Brier’s magical book Take Off Your Armour and Have a Cup of Tea is about being the mother of a child who shows up differently in the world. It’s a celebration of Brier’s daughter, and it features in this month’s Unbound Press Book Club – click on the link below to sign up.
In this Episode:
- Connecting deeply with nature
- Tools and practices Brier found along the way
- Shifting your internal perceptions and attitudes
- The cyclical nature of Brier’s creativity
- Challenging the stories we're led to believe
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Brier on her website.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola explores what happens when you give yourself the opportunity to be held and supported through your book writing journey. Specifically, she talks about the Unbound Writing Mastermind, the signature group process at Unbound HQ. The doors are opening again soon – join the waitlist here for more info.
In this Episode:
- Having space held for you as you write
- Resistance and reluctance to being part of a circle of women
- Being in community with and hearing from other writers
- The element of support you experience by being part of a group
- Accessing the wisdom of other writers
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola shares extracts from her Instagram Live interviews with unbound authors. She’s chosen juicy snippets from recent conversations with Sarah Lloyd, Zoë Foster, Carrie Myers and Jennifer Flint. Each of these incredible humans approaches writing in a different way – Nicola delves into their journeys. You can listen to the full interviews on Instagram, or catch future ones live on a Tuesday.
In this Episode:
- Going beyond our traditional notions of motherhood
- Blowing apart the way collaborations are done
- People-pleasing and dimming your light
- Deciding between writing fiction and non-fiction
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Jo on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Sarah on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Zoë on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Carrie on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Jennifer on Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about the fears and doubts that come up around sharing your story, and she offers three prompts to use as a starting place to share from.
If the episode activates something in you, get in touch with Nicola – she’d love to hear from you.
In this Episode:
- Sharing more of your story than feels comfortable
- Activating sensation in your readers
- Sharing from your own perspective
- Owning your point of view
- Bringing your book to life through your story
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Sarah Parkes. In November 2021, Sarah released Awakening Legacy into the world – a collaborative book featuring 12 authors, including herself. We encourage you to read it and see what gets sparked off and activated within you. Even if it's just one of the stories that helps you connect more deeply with your legacy, that's such a powerful thing.
In this Episode:
- The process and challenges of a collaborative book
- Holding a truly collaborative space for others
- The alchemy of a book coming together
- A book as a powerful presence
- What’s next for Sarah Parkes?
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Sarah on her website, Facebook or Instagram, and find out more about (and buy) Awakening Legacy here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Tara Jackson. Tara’s released two wonderful books into the world (Embodied and Embodied Business ) and is currently working on her third – Embodied Creation. She’s also recently published an Oracle card deck – Embodied Wisdom – with us. Click here to order your copy and bring yourself back into alignment with your entire being.
In this Episode:
- Writing about your own experiences
- Tara’s books and their different energies
- Using writing you already have towards your book
- Honouring, writing and sharing your story
- Being in ‘the void’ and the courage it takes
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Tara on Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola shares six useful tips to help you on your book writing journey. “How do I find the time to write a book?” is a classic objection. Nicola turns that on its head with her simple methods.
In this Episode:
- Making your book a priority
- Writing in a way that works for you
- Writing in alignment with your cyclical nature
- When are you going to write today?
- Piggybacking your writing onto other habits
- Infusing pleasure into your writing process
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola shares the Unbound Womxn author discussion that took place recently.
This month, the focus is ‘how to write a book if you’re feeling the call’.
Nicola is joined by three unbound authors – Victoria Smisek, Tonia Gaudiuso and Jennifer Flint – who share their wisdom, experiences, advice and encouragement.
In this Episode:
- Allowing your book to evolve
- Bringing in a playful quality
- Writing for yourself
- Learning to trust your book
- Connecting with your creative self
- Separating writing and editing
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Victoria on her website.
Connect with Tonia on her website.
Connect with Jennifer on Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Natalie Farrell.
Natalie’s powerful book Light The Way was released into the world last year, and is a combination of biography and self-help guide.
Are you a lost soul?
A magnetic soul?
A wounded soul?
Then this book is for you.
Light The Way features in the Unbound Press Book Club this month – click on the link below to sign up.
In this Episode:
- The three parts of Natalie’s book
- Natalie’s tips for her readers
- Questions to keep in mind when reading Light The Way
- Being kind and supporting yourself
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Book Incubator
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
The Unbound Press Book Club
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Natalie on her website and Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola answers questions that came up in the Unbound Writing Mastermind, including “How do I get started?” and “Do I need a book proposal?” Getting into momentum with your writing without overthinking is the key. Are you feeling the call?
In this Episode:
- Moving from feeling the call to committing
- What does a book proposal involve?
- Taking inspired action with your writing
- Clarity through creation – you don't have to figure it all out
- Writing in alignment with your cyclical nature and allowing space for magic
- Showing up for your book so it can show up for you
- Creating the right conditions to conceive your book
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Unbound Book Incubator
Nicola’s free ‘connecting with your book’ visualisation
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club – the first of the new year – Nicola brings together the voices of different members of the Unbound Press family to share what they’re calling in for 2022. As you listen, let the words flow through you and notice what’s activated within you.
In this Episode:
- Writing purely for pleasure
- Diving deep into what seems like a scary process
- Movement, change and the opportunity for growth
- Creating change through using your voice
- Focusing on what's really important
Authors featured in this Episode:
- Jo Gifford - connect with Jo here, and on Instagram here.
- Zoë Foster - connect with Zoe here, and on Instagram or Facebook here.
- Sarah Wheeler - connect with Sarah here, and on Instagram here.
- Helen Rebello - connect with Helen here, and on Instagram here.
- Victoria Smisek - connect with Victoria here.
- Anna Sansom - connect with Anna here, and on Instagram or Facebook here.
- Ceryn Rowntree - connect with Ceryn here, and on Instagram here.
- Yolandi Boshoff - connect with Yolandi here, and on Instagram or Facebook here.
- Natalie Farrell - connect with Natalie here, and on Instagram here.
- Melina Abbott - connect with Melina here, and on Instagram or Facebook here.
- Tonia Gaudiuso - connect with Tonia here, and on Instagram or Facebook here.
- Alison Shaloe - connect with Alison here, and on Instagram or Facebook here.
- Lorraine Pannetier - connect with Lorrain here, and on Instagram or Facebook here.
- Diana Morgan - connect with Diana here, and on Instagram or Facebook here.
- Holly McLoughlin - connect with Holly here, and on Instagram here.
- Rachel Haywood - connect with Rachel on Instagram here.
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Masterm
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Debra Kilby. Debra’s powerful book – Rosa’s Choice: Healing the Wounds of the Mother – is a journey into the world of the spirit baby. Debra is also a channeller, and in this episode she brings through a channelled message to the unbound community.
In this Episode:
- What unbound writing means to Debra
- A channelled message from Egyptian goddess Isis
- The energies of truth and the essence of truth
- ‘Writing’ the wrongs of the past to create a future
- Emerging together into 2022
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Debra on her website, Facebook and Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Trudi Remer. Trudi’s inspirational memoir Adventure After is out now – an incredible piece of work about the life of Trudi’s loved ones, and also her life.
In this Episode:
- What called Trudi to write Adventure After?
- What prompted Trudi to create adventures in her life?
- Trudi’s travels in Russia and walking the Camino de Santiago
- Waiting until the time is right to write a book
- The ebbing and flowing of unbound writing
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Trudi on her website and Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with herself, talking a little bit about the Unbound Press and reflecting on the lessons she’s learnt throughout the incredible journey. Nicola’s soul-led publishing imprint for magical women celebrated its third anniversary on November 22nd – 25 transformative books have made their way into the world so far.
In this Episode:
- The publishing process is just as transformational as the writing process
- When we come together, we become more
- New evolutions drop in at the perfect time
- It's okay (and actually really important) to say no – not everyone is a good fit
- It's okay to screw up – we’re all human, and these things happen
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with seven unbound writers: Beckie Shuttleworth, Katie J Redstar, Yvette Puliga, Becki Marie Douglas, Amanda Daniels-Allen, Emma Baylin and Sian Rule. Alongside lead author Sarah Parkes and four other writers, the collective of 12 collaborated to write Awakening Legacy. Each inspirational contributor wrote a chapter, touching on the legacy they’d like to capture for generations to come. Awakening Legacy was released into the world on November 22nd – it will take you on such a gorgeous journey.
In this Episode:
- The transformational experience of collaborative writing
- Moving beyond labels and breaking free
- Fears and challenges around writing and sharing your truth
- The power of different perspectives in a single book
- The word legacy and what it means to each writer
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Find out more about Awakening Legacy and each of the contributors here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Ceryn Rowntree. Ceryn’s book The Divine Feminist is making its way into the world on November 18th – everyone who reads it will experience such a sense of activation.
In this Episode:
- Taking off your bindings and allowing your book to lead the way
- Being called to write and letting go of the need to control your book
- Jumping into the unknown and puzzle pieces coming together
- The idea of the Divine Feminist and Ceryn’s human awakening
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Ceryn on her website and Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Yolandi Boshoff. Yolandi’s transformative book The Starseed Sacred Circle was released into the world over the summer. It takes readers on a journey of self-discovery, equipping them with life-changing processes to weave into their lives. The Starseed Sacred Circle features in the Unbound Book Club this month.
In this Episode:
- Connecting with star beings from across the universe
- Stepping back into your power and reconnecting with your inner wisdom
- Delving deeper to rediscover your truth
- Holding your power and space
- Ways of working with Yolandi’s book
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Yolandi on her website, Facebook and Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with a panel of authors from the Unbound Press – Tara Jackson, Ceryn Rowntree and Sarah Wheeler. These unbound women explore the subject of cyclical writing – a key part of the unbound writing process.
In this Episode:
- Harnessing the power of your cyclical nature to write in alignment
- Allowing yourself to access the full spectrum of who you are
- Creation processes varying by book
- The influence of menstrual cycles and seasons
- Your book honouring you and your cyclical nature
- Finding the balance of regular writing
- The seasons of your book
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Tara on Instagram.
Connect with Ceryn on Instagram.
Connect with Sarah on her website and Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author and poet Carrie Myers. In 2020, Carrie was part of the Unbound Press’ collaborative book #2020 Vision: Unbound Perspective from a Year Like No Other. Her gorgeous poem closed the book.
In this Episode:
- Holding back, people-pleasing and dimming your light
- Following the good girl path
- Remembering who you’re meant to be
- Setting a standard for yourself
- Knowing you are more than enough
Carrie is in the process of creating another collaborative book with the Unbound Press – Soul Shine. Find out about contributing here.
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Carrie on her website or Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with unbound author Julie Budge. At the end of last year, Julie released her inspiring book – My Sisters' House: From Kitchen Table to Women's Centre – into the universe.
In this Episode:
- Drive, passion and determination
- Including your own story
- Connecting with your readers
- Who is your book for?
- Not worrying about your book’s structure
- Creating a legacy
Julie’s book features in the Unbound Press Book Club this month. You can join the club here.
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Julie on her website, Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with magical unbound author Sarah Marshall. Sarah recently released her book – The Empath's Guide To The Universe – into the world. In it, Sarah shares personal experiences, and gives readers an understanding of the empath’s superpower.
In this Episode:
- Being ready to write a book
- Sarah’s intention for writing her book
- Managing emotional overwhelm
- Why empaths are amazing writers
- The importance of boundaries
- Human Design types
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Sarah on her website, Instagram or Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with a panel of authors from the Unbound Press – Natalie Farrell, Anna Sansom and Sarah Wheeler. These unbound women explore the subject of pleasure – one of the principles of living unbound.
In this Episode:
- Allowing pleasure to be your compass
- Receiving pleasure from the experience of writing
- Childhood memories of pleasure
- Traditional gender stereotypes
- Being productive and in a state of pleasure
- Being shamed for pleasure
- Prioritising pleasure, pleasure habits, and pockets of pleasure
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Natalie on Instagram.
Connect with Anna on her website, and also here for a pleasure-related course Anna is launching.
Connect with Sarah on her website.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Unbound author Katie Snow. Katie’s book This is for Katie is out now – a dating guide for women of all ages, but particularly those in their 20s and 30s. Even if you’re happily ensconced in a relationship, you’re going to love this book – it’s absolutely hilarious.
In this Episode:
- Fighting against your voice
- Getting your words out there in the freest possible way
- Who is Katie writing for?
- The healing power of a book
- This is for Katie and social media
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Katie on Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Unbound author Melina Abbott. Melina’s book – Sacred Selling: Foundations for an Aligned, Abundant Business is out now, and it’s a beautifully written game changer.
In this Episode:
- Resistance to the idea of writing a book
- Melina’s sacred selling pioneers
- Allowing the words to come through without a plan
- Struggling with your book, and what to include
- The biggest book writing challenges
- Inviting people to go with you on the writing journey
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Melina on her website.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Natalie Farrell, a return guest. Natalie’s book – Light The Way – is out now, described as “a must-have soul guide to loving life, loving yourself, and committing to the true business of your soul.”
In this Episode:
- Allowing yourself to be supported by other women
- Owning a multi-dimensional way of living
- Waking up spiritually and connecting more with your soul’s purpose
- Natalie’s gorgeous release of starseed poems
- The power of writing a transformational book
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Natalie on her website and Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about the reimagination and relaunch of the Unbound Press Book Club – a virtual group and sanctuary, where you join us in an intentional way by choosing to connect.
In this Episode:
- Coming together around unbound books
- Connecting with fellow book lovers
- Sharing the magic that comes through each book
- That one line in a book that changes everything for you
- The transformational experience you can have through reading books
The Unbound Press Book Club has found a new home on Mighty Networks. Join us in September, by subscribing here.
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about going right back to the beginning of the writing process – stage zero of the unbound journey – when you're feeling the call to write a book.
In this Episode:
- Insights, messages and downloads coming from within and the outside
- Activating your potential by responding to the call and saying yes
- Receiving (and needing) external guidance that you’re here to be a writer
- The emotions that come up when you really allow yourself to feel the calling
Nicola is hosting a free 90-minute workshop, where she’ll take you through the stages of writing a book – the unbound approach. She’d love you to join her on Thursday, September 9th (8am Pacific, 11am Eastern, 4pm UK). Save your spot here.
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Starseed Connector and Soul Coach Yolandi Boshoff. Yolandi’s book – The Starseed Sacred Circle – is released on July 22nd, with Yolandi hosting a book blessing ceremony.
In this Episode:
- Your soul wanting you to write a book
- Yolandi’s book writing dream
- Coming back home to yourself
- Deeply transformational writing experiences
- Honing in on your truth
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Yolandi on her website.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Leah Kent. Leah is a self-published Author, Book Designer and Book Coach. She’s also one of the founding members of the Unbound Writer’s Club.
In this Episode:
- Getting right back into the centre of your body
- The twists and turns of Leah’s journey
- Carving out time for writing and sharing your voice
- Embracing the seasons and flowing with rhythms
- Leah’s work in the book world as a “translator” and “conduit”
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Leah on her website.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Spiritual Coach Dainei Tracy and Presenter, Writer, and Coach Pearl Jordan. Dainei and Tracy organised a writing retreat – they share their experience with Nicola.
In this Episode:
- Dainei and Pearl’s powerful conversations about their books
- Allowing the spirit of your book to guide you
- Honouring your book
- Exploring the layers of your personal being
- The role of nature for Dainei and Pearl
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Dainei on her website and Pearl here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Unbound Press author and team member Jo Gifford, delving into the magic of creating content that connects to your readers and your audience in the most unbound way possible.
In this Episode:
- Unbound content marketing
- Creating aligned content
- How to create from a space of connected energy and repurpose
- Why the new way of connecting online is unbound
- Tips to create content in a way that feels you
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Jo’s Done For You Content package
Brilliance Unboxed on Amazon
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Jo on Instagram here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about the benefits – superpowers – of creating and holding space for writers to come together in community.
In this Episode:
- Unbound accountability and commitment
- Community sparking inspiration
- Community providing a brave space to write and connect
- Tapping into collective energy and your courage
- Accessing deeper layers of transformation and healing
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola introduces her wonderful team that’s expanded so quickly, and so magically.
In this Episode:
- What it means to be unbound, for each of the team
- Letting your true self shine through
- Listening to your intuition
- Human and real connections
- Wanting something different to the mainstream
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Sarah Parkes. Sarah is a Legacy Life Coach who supports people to create the life they want. She’s also in the process of co-creating a book.
In this Episode:
- Delving behind the scenes of a collaborative book project
- The freedom of unbound writing
- Our legacy coming from our purpose
- The vulnerability of co-creating a book
- Creating a legacy of feminine social change
- The magic that happens when people come together
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Sarah on her website and Facebook.
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about how to hold the vision for the community you're creating.
In this Episode:
- Community as a key aspect of the unbound writing process
- The power of inviting people to come with you on your book writing journey
- Personal examples from Nicola of connecting with and holding that vision
- Allowing your vision to bubble away in the background
- Evolution of the vision
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Tonia G, a returning guest. Tonia loves helping people turn money problems into a framework for a life well lived – close friends call her the money whisperer.
In this Episode:
- The mastery of being unbound
- Allowing your book to be what it’s meant to be
- Learning from your book
- Being a vessel for your book
- The “Encore” of Tonia’s book
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Tonia G on her website and Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks about what to do when strong emotion bubbles up during your writing process.
In this Episode:
- Tools to navigate emotion
- Acknowledging and owning embarrassment
- Taking yourself away from the page to a safe space with heavier emotions
- Allowing yourself to ebb and flow, and asking yourself what you need
- Giving yourself permission to write for yourself
Links Mentioned:UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Pearl Jordan. Pearl is a presenter, writer, and coach. She’s also the creator of the Rhythmic Remedy™ Technique, a unique tool she uses to help women step out of sadness, stuckness and struggle, and move through life with energy, enthusiasm and purpose.
In this Episode:
- Acknowledging you’re a writer
- Making changes in your life and daring to go into the space of writing
- Having to prove yourself and the impact on your psyche
- Pearl’s process of creating a ‘story journey’, and her relationship with music
- Pearl’s approach to her book as a production
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Pearl on her website and Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, Nicola talks about how to create your book, and she offers some top tips for moving from 'shitty' first draft to magical, completed manuscript.
In this Episode:
- What’s a first draft?
- Writing in a way that creates a sense of activation
- Thinking about the reader’s journey
- Sharing your own story and experiences to create a deeper sense of connection with your readers
- Reading your manuscript out loud to get a better sense of flow
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Psychotherapist of 20 years Victoria Smisek. Victoria also teaches MBSR mindfulness, qoya, and is an avid writer who is about to release her book, Falling Awake ~ A Heroine’s Journey.
In this Episode:
- Giving yourself permission to not censor your voice
- Writing from the heart rather than the head
- Freeing yourself emotionally and energetically to focus on writing
- Repeating patterns from our early childhood experiences
- Books having a life of their own
- Being of service not just to each other, but also to the planet
Links Mentioned:UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Victoria on her website and Instagram.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola talks more about conceiving the book you’re really here to write and connecting with the essence of your book.
In this Episode:
- The book writing journey as a collaboration between you and your book
- The idea that your book has an essence and a spirit, and energy of its own
- Using visualisation to allow yourself to be supported by your book’s energy
- If you're feeling stuck and unsure what your next step is, just ask your book
Links Mentioned:Connecting with Your Book Visualisation
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer’s Club, Nicola is in conversation with Healer, Channel and Baby Spirit Communicator Debra Kilby. Debra is also the author of Rosa’s Choice, a powerful book about the journey to motherhood, healing the wounds of the mother, patriarchy, creation, and the balance of masculine feminine.
In this Episode:
- What Unbound Writing means for Debra
- The journey to life and what it means to be on this earth
- Conceiving a book by understanding your experiences and finding freedom
- Practising free writing to open up a channel for inspiration and creation
- Giving yourself permission to go with the flow and speak the words that want to come through
- Moving through resistance and fears to recognise your innate gifts
Links Mentioned:UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Debra on her website and Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, we are starting a whole new month and a new focus. We are moving into the idea of conception, and conceiving the book you are really here to write.
In this Episode:
- How we conceive in the most powerful way when we combine all aspects of ourselves.
- Creating the right kind of conditions to conceive your book
- Awareness of the moments you are allowing ideas to arrive
- What conceiving a book might look like for you.
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, Nicola is in conversation with Lola Fayemi, Leadership Coach, and Founder of Boss Ass Living.
In this Episode:
- The unbound meeting of Nicola and Lola, and how her journey started with writing a book
- Sovereignty and living your truth
- Tapping into activations and world systems of change
- How Lola arrived back in her black body
- ...and much, much more.
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Lola on her website, Instagram, and Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, Nicola is in conversation with Cathy Skipper, Ancestral Healer and Aromatic Shaman.
In this Episode:
- Unbinding ancestral lineage
- Decolonizing mother lines
- How Cathy committed to her writing
- How the Unbound Writing Mastermind helped Cathy to write her book
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Cathy on https://aromagnosis.com/ and Instagram https://www.instagram.com/cathy.skipper/
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, Nicola continues the theme of committing to your book writing journey.
In this Episode:
- Committing to write as part of the Unbound Writing Process
- 7 ways to commit to your book writing journey
- Feeding your creativity
- Examples of anchoring in your book writing commitment
Links Mentioned:UNBOUND and Unbound WritingThe Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, we continue with the theme of committing to writing your book.
Nicola is joined by Sarah Wheeler, an outspoken advocate for women recovering from the wounds of patriarchy. Sarah is a Reiki teacher and a yoga teacher specialising in Hatha Flow and yoga nidra. She's also a burlesque performer, author, and founder of You're Enough Yoga in Hove, East Sussex in the UK.
In this Episode:
- What Unbound Writing means for Sarah
- How Unbound Writing helps to unpick the bindings we find ourselves in
- The recovery journey or rape and trauma
- The messiness and power of sharing your voice
- Why we need to re-commit to writing at every stage of the process
Sarah's Book Launch Event for Shadow and Rose.
Links Mentioned:UNBOUND and Unbound WritingThe Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Sarah on her website, and on Instagram here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club we begin a new month and a new theme: the first stage of Unbound Writing: to commit.
In this Episode:
- What commitment to your book might mean
- What commitment activates in you and your book
- The unseen support that arrives when you commit to writing
- The energetic shift of commitment
Links Mentioned:UNBOUND and Unbound WritingThe Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, Nicola is in conversation with Sue Sutherland, Unbound author and contributor to #2020Vision, and the founder of the Feel Institute.
In this Episode:
- In-body, visceral experiences
- Getting feral and sitting with. discomfort
- The shadow of speaking your truth
- Internal censorship
- The courage of showing your realness
Links Mentioned:UNBOUND and Unbound WritingThe Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Sue on their website here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, Nicola continues to explore the concept of shadow integration, through the lens of unbound writing prompts.
In this Episode:
- How to use the alchemy of your shadow in transformative writing
- How to use Nicola’s prompts to dig into your shadow
- What transmuting your shadow does to your writing and your readers
- How your shadow leads you to be more unbound, in all areas!
Links Mentioned:
UNBOUND and Unbound Writing
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Unbound Writing Prompts
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, Nicola is in conversation with Natalie Windle Fell, Unbound author of rude awakening.
In this Episode:
- The freedom of expression in Unbound Writing
- The gritty, shadow side of awakening
- Finding role models for awakening
- How Natalie wrote her book
- The elephant in the room of shadow work
Links Mentioned:UNBOUND and Unbound WritingThe Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Natalie on Instagram here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club we moving into a new month and a new focus.
This month we are focusing on the fifth layer of Unbound Writing, the alchemy of shadow integration.
In this Episode:
- Writing through shadow integration
- How facing your shadows and writing through them alchemises them
- What shadow work means for Nicola, and for you, the writer
- How Unbound Writing invites your shadow to come forward
- Detatching from the outcome of your writing
Links Mentioned:Ebonie Allard, Misfit to Maven
Carolyn Elliott , Existential Kink
UNBOUND and Unbound WritingThe Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, Nicola speaks to Julie Budge, an award-winning Founder and CEO of My Sisters’ House Women’s Centre.
In this Episode:
- How Julie wrote her book and fed her creativity by showing up for the book daily
- Writing through grief and sadness
- How sisterhood in the Unbound press team helped to create Julie's book
- Leading as a woman in trauma work
- The magical chain of events that unfolded after Julie announced her book
Links Mentioned:The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Julie on her website and My Sister's House.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, Nicola speaks to Natalie Farrell.
Natalie is a writer, podcaster, and intuitive coach, with a mission to inspire women at the brink of life changing decisions.
In this Episode:
- Connecting with the unbound woman
- Writing through intuition
- Why theUnbound woman writing the Unbound book need each other
- How Natalie rediscovered her voice
- Comparisonitis and the unbound writer
Links Mentioned:The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Natalie on her website, on Facebook, and Instagram.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, Nicola explores the theme of sisterhood and community in our unbound writing.
In this Episode:
- What sisterhood means in Unbound writing
- Why we need community as we write, and how it helps the process
- How Nicola has embraced sisterhood in writing
- How community changes how we write
- Ways to write with sisterhood
- How sisterhood activates our writing in a new way
Links Mentioned:The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts
Podcast Episode: The 4 layers of magic that get activated when you complete your book
UNBOUND Writing book
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writers Club, Nicola is in conversation with Isobel Gatherer, an international Psychic, Intuitive Reader, Channeler and Energy Healer.
In this Episode:
- How Isobel came to work with angels and discover her life purpose
- How Isobel channels and connects to her guides
- How Isobel lives an unbound life
- How Isobel co-creates with spirit
- What unbound writing looked like for Isobel.
Links Mentioned:The Unbound Writing Mastermind
UNBOUND Writing book
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Isobel on her website here, on Instagram here, and on Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
2020 has been quite a turbulent, transformational, shape-shifting year. At this time of year, we often reflect on how we grew and changed in the year just gone, and what we are calling in for the year ahead.
If a book has been something on your heart this year, or if you feel called to write next year, this episode shares 3 ways to be supported to write and publish your book in 2021.
In this Episode:
- What's involved and included in the UNBOUND Writing Mastermind, and how to join.
- How to publish your book with the UNBOUND Press.
- The all-in option with Nicola mentoring in closer way.
Links Mentioned:The Unbound Writing Mastermind
UNBOUND Writing book
Book a chat with Nicola here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode, Nicola is in conversation with UNBOUND Press author Dr Sara Coxon, discussing the Way of the Priestess.
In this Episode:
- Sara's journey from academia and archaeology to embracing her priestesshood
- Sara's unique unbound writing journey
- What being a priestess means for women at this time
- How Sara found her purpose
- What happens when we think we have found our purpose, but discover it's not out true path
- Sara's author journey
"Priestesshood is a portal to reclaiming our feminine power and reclaiming our sense of purpose. And when we reclaim both of those, then we live more fulfilled
lives and we contribute to the healing of this planet. Because I totally believe that when more women are really following what's in their heart and what really matters, that's when we will get ourselves out of this mess that we're in."
Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
UNBOUND Writing book
The UNBOUND Writing Challenge
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Dr Sara Coxon on her website here and on Instagram here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode, Nicola is in conversation with UNBOUND Press author Jessy Paston, discussing the wild within.
In this Episode:
- What is the wild within, and how can we embrace it?
- Boundary setting and owning your space
- Jessy and her wild, unbound, writing process
- Lessons from the wild, natural world
- Jessy's author journey
"But the essence of who I am, the wild within just keeps coming through".
Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
UNBOUND Writing book
The UNBOUND Writing Challenge
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Jessy on her website here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
This episode is all about focussing your writing on your unique gift, and what comes naturally to you.
You are here to share your own magic and medicine with the world at this time, so how can you really step into it? Join us in this episode as Nicola shares her perspective on this.
In this Episode:
- Identifying your uniqueness and what comes easily to you
- Letting go of the need to create something 100% unique, and learning to find your voice in the overall conversation
- Writing for clarity, not waiting for clarity
- How writing helps you discover your unique gift more
- Why your audience need to hear from YOU (and specifically you!)
"Trust your unique voice, trust your unique perspective. Don't let the idea that it's all been said before, hold you back".
Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
UNBOUND Writing book
The UNBOUND Writing Challenge
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of the Unbound Writer's Club, Nicola talks about the void, and how it works as part of the creative cycle.
In this episode:
- What is the void, and why do we feel resistance to it?
- How does the void fit into the creative cycle?
- How can we work with, not against the void?
- What benefits are they to embracing the void?
- How the void allow us to go fallow.
- The restorative nature of the void.
- We we don't know what's next, there are so many possibilities available to us.
"When we allow ourselves to be in deep agreement with the void or whatever part of the cycle we're in, it allows us to move through it rather than getting stuck there".
Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
UNBOUND Writing book
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
This week, we are continuing on the theme of harnessing the power of your cyclical nature when it comes to your writing and your creativity, and also your life in general.
This week I have another guest and Unbound writer Ali Roe.
Ali is the founder of Ali Roe Creative; she has been a member of the Unbound writing mastermind, a writer and visual artist.
Creativity is really baked into everything that Ali does and how she shows up in the world.
In this episode:- The cyclical nature of creativity
- How Ali discovered personal ways to honour her cyclical nature
- The link between burnout and overriding your creative needs
- Unbinding yourself from the pressure of linear living and working
- What working unbound means to Ali
- The transformative nature of cycles and seasons
- Harnessing cyclical power and creativity
Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
UNBOUND Writing book
Connect with Ali on her website here.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
Angie Northwood is the author of Take Off Your Armour and Have a Cup of Tea with the UNBOUND press.
Nicola joins Angie in this episode to chat about living life unbound and working with our cyclical nature.
In this episode:
- How Angie began following her cycles of life and tuned into her unbound life.
- How Angie tuned into her own cyclical nature and stepped out of the system.
- How the menopause helped Angie tune into being a cyclical being.
- The significance of connection to the moon and the seasons.
- How the menopause can be a truly transformational time.
- How tuning into our cyclical nature at a deep level we can become unstoppable forces of creative power.
- How we really can reclaim the crone, and what the word really means.
Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
UNBOUND Writing book
Miranda Gray
Connect with Angie on her website here.
Angie's book Take Off Your Armour and Have a Cup of Tea is here, and Reclaiming The Crone is forthcoming with The UNBOUND Press.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
Our creativity is affected, influenced and inspired by cycles in life.
From cycles of the moon, our menstrual cycles, project cycles, life cycles, creative cycles - looking at your writing from an unbound, cyclical nature can be so free-ing and empowering as you write your book.
In this episode:
- Recognising and harnessing different cycles
- The cycles of the creative process of writing
- The power of the void and action
- How the cyclical nature of writing can be so powerful
"My invitation to you, through this month, as we're exploring, this is to really start noticing how your own creative energies and impulses and flow and shift from day to day and throughout the day."
Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
UNBOUND Writing book
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this Episode, Nicola takes us behind the scenes of her new book, 'UNBOUND Writing'.
Unbound Writing is released on October 1st, and it's all about how to write the transformational book that you are really here to write at this specific time.
"I think the key is always to get out of our heads as much as possible and come into the knowing of our bodies".In this Episode:- How Nicola came to write UNBOUND Writing
- The journey from writing UNBOUND, to starting The UNBOUND Press, to this book coming into the world
- How Nicola had to live the book to write it
- How the live UNBOUND Masterminds and this podcast informed the book
- The radical self trust needed to write a transformational book
- How Nicola is launching the book
"I really feel like this is something that happens when you write a book, you anchor more deeply into your unique magic and your unique gifts."Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
UNBOUND Writing book
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
As we continue with the pleasure theme this month on The UNBOUND Writer's Club, Nicola interviews intuitive copywriter, Lorraine Pannetier.
In this episode:
- What it means to follow your intuition
- How to feel into your purpose
- What intuitive writing looks like for Lorraine
- How giving yourself permission to do what you need in the moment can lead to more creativity
- How intuition feeds into our lives, our work, and our soul purpose
- Creating space to be the best version of yourself
- Letting go of the struggle with writing and finding a process of ease and pleasure
Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Lorraine on Instagram and her website here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
Continuing with the pleasure theme this month on The UNBOUND Writer's Club, Nicola talks about writing in a way that lights you up, in this bite-sized episode.
In this episode:
- Why writing on other people's pain points may not work for you
- How allowing what lights you up leads the way to more magic in your work
- How pleasure can lead us to discover more about ourselves through writing
- How the energy of writing about what lights us up infuses your work with a different energy.
Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
The Magical Portal Project
Leonie Dawson
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
As we explore pleasure throughout the month of September, Nicola explores the idea of sensual writing in this week's podcast.
In this episode:
- How to find ways that feel good to you to write
- How to bring all your senses to your writing
- How to work with your full body when you write
- Why engaging all your senses brings a spacious and UNBOUND quality to your writing
- How slowing down and writing in a sensual way can bring a new quality to writing
- Noticing how your body feels when writing
- Experimenting with allowing your body to feel open when writing
Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode, Nicola speaks to Unbound Press author Anna Sansom.
Anna's book, Desire Lines, was published in 2019 by The UNBOUND Press.
Anna's book is incredibly powerful in many ways, and her writing process through the lens of pleasure is such a deep and fascinating topic.
In this Episode:
- How Anna started writing erotica
- How she explored her own sexuality through writing
- Why Anna is passionate about women giving themselves permission to explore their sexual selves and their desires
- The three audiences for erotica; yourself, your lover/partner, and a wider audience
- How living UNBOUND and your writing as your sexual self are so closely linked
- How we discover ourselves through our writing, and how that applies to pleasure and sexuality
- How infusing our writing with pleasure and being in our body infuses work with a whole new UNBOUND layer of alchemy
Links Mentioned:
Anna's book, Desire Lines.
Connect with Anna on her website, and on Instagram
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this Episode, as we carry on with the theme of abundance, Nicola walks us through10 specific ways to attract clients and create an income right throughout your book writing journey.
A really key aspect of the Unbound writing process is that you don't have to wait until your book is out there in the world to start creating an income and receiving the benefit of it.
In this episode:
- How to to take your audience behind the scenes on the journey with you.
- How you can create a mastermind or group experience as you're writing your book.
- How podcasts can help you create your book material and build your audience.
- How a retreat can help you to find material and inspiration.
- Run a book club or circle related to your book
- How to use taster, bite sized chunks of your work to create material and also build an audience
- How events and community projects can build an audience and create momentum
Links mentioned:
Jo's book, Brilliance Unboxed
Jo Casey's Podcast Course
https://www.retreatandgrowrich.com
https://elitriercommunities.com
https://nicolahumber.com/unbound-writing-prompts/
The Magical Portal Project
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
UNBOUND books arrive in many different ways, and each author has their own process as they allow their book to come through.
In this episode, Nicola talks to Jo Gifford, who is both an author with The UNBOUND Press, and a team member behind the scenes.
In this episode:
- How writing isn’t as you imagine it to be
- How Jo’s books arrived for her and what being an UNBOUND writer means
- How Jo made time for her books around busy projects
- How Brilliance Unboxed made it’s impact in the world
- How book #3 arrived, and how it appeared
- How the UNBOUND Mastermind helped Jo in her process
- How the book made itself known to Jo
- How the book changed Jo’s life as she lived it
- How the book unfolded with ease
- How joy finds abundance through human connection
- How Jo started a group and created an energetic space intuitively and away from the noise
Links Mentioned:The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Jo's book, Brilliance Unboxed
Connect Your Brilliance (Jo's group)
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Jo on Instagram, her website, or via email.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
Abundance can mean so much more than money, or financial abundance.
An abundance of time, of space, of nature, creativity, connection - they are all things we can experience an abundance of, and can be infused into your writing.
In this episode, Nicola invites us to think about how to create abundance for ourselves as writers and for our soul family audiences as we write, the UNBOUND way.
In this episode:
- How to allow abundance to come through in the way that you write
- How to be conscious about where and how you write to allow more abundance
- Opening up a sense of possibility about where and how you write
- Why we need to think about how you want to feel during the writing process, and how you want your reader to feel
- Why the energy that goes into your writing is as important as what you write
- How your writing creates activation
- How to tune into abundant thinking, and how you can write from that space
- Why we need to challenge thoughts of not-enoughness and reframe them
Links Mentioned:The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
Tonia Gaudiuso is the author of The New Commodities, set to be published with The UNBOUND Press. She is a money expert supporting individuals and small businesses who loves to guide her clients as they turn their money pain into a life full of joy and freedom.
In this episode, join Nicola Humber and Tonia in conversation about the UNBOUND Writing process, abundance, and the magic of telling our stories.
In this episode:
- How Tonia never thought of herself as a writer
- How the UNBOUND writing process unfolded for her
- How Tonia found it difficult to share her voice, and how she overcame it.
- How Tonia reclaimed her voice by getting comfortable with the uncomfortable
- How singing helped her to find joy in her voice and share it
- How her book dropped in, and how she followed the breadcrumbs to allow the book to come through
- How the book arrived in an UNBOUND writing workshop
- How Tonia’s book, The New Commodities, was already written when the title arrived
- The terrifying vulnerability and liberating freedom in writing her story
- Tonia’s love story with money and how it began as a child
- The book writing process as growth
- What abundance really means to Tonia
- How she infused abundance in her writing
- Why space was so important in her writing process
- The importance of the permission to play
Links Mentioned:
Sacred Money Circle
http://mamagenas.com and her tool of Spring Cleaning
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Tonia on Instagram and her website.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode, Nicola talks about the dichotomy of writing in an UNBOUND way, whilst feeling the need to create structure.
In this episode:
- How the word “should” is a warning sign
- Trusting the process of not needing to have a structure as your book comes through
- Often a structure drops later in the process of writing when we allow ourselves to sit with the mess of writing
- How the structure of Nicola’s book, UNBOUND, became clear late in the writing process
- How to sit with the desire to create structure and be present with the magic of the mess in the unknowing
- How books don’t need to look the way we are told they “should”
- Ask the yourself what journey you would like to take your reader on
- What brings them to your book, and what are they looking to experience from reading your book?
- Your journey for the reader in your book has room for magic and can take many forms
- Consider your own journey and your own story over your lifetime
- Merging your story and the journey of your readers allows for magic to happen
- Give yourself permission to tell your story in a different way
- Even with a structure in place, you don’t have to write in a linear way
- Your book and your UNBOUND Self might have different ideas about how to write
- A huge part of the UNBOUND book writing process is to allow yourself to be guided
- When you allow yourself to sit with times of not knowing, the book has a powerful, transformational experience to it
- Structure can also be created through a process that you use in your work as a structure for your book
- “The key thing is always to leave space for magic”
Links Mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Connecting With Your Book visualisation
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode Nicola talks with Sarah Lloyd, author of Connecting the Dots: Making Magic with the Media, published by The UNBOUND Press in February 2020.
In this episode:
- How Sarah’s book didn’t fit any box, and was perfect for The Unbound Press
- Writing as a spiritual journey and practice
- How synchronous meetings led to her writing a book
- How light bulb moments played out in her real life as her book revealed itself
- Sarah’s experience of bringing her book to life
- How she bucked the PR trend to launch her own book during COVID
- How Connecting The Dots came to be, and how life has been since the launch
- How we can reach the media and get our stories out into the world without ego and with consciousness
- How to create a PR plan that works for you and your book
- How to tell stories to the press
- How your book can also be your PR plan
Links mentioned:
The Unbound Writing Mastermind
Find Sarah’s book, Connecting the Dots here.
Connect with Sarah here on her website, here on Instagram and here on Facebook.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode, Nicola talks about some specific magic and experiences that happen when you finish your book.
In this episode:
- How holding your book in your hands is an act of completion and personal achievement and trust.
- The shift that happens in your body when you finish an UNBOUND book at the end of a creative cycle.
- How completion and finality is so rare in our online, constantly evolving world.
- How finishing your book clears the way for new things to arrive and opens up space for whatever is next.
- How you get to access a new layer of yourself from the process of writing a book the UNBOUND way.
- The sense of loss that can happen when you experience finishing a book, and the grief that we can experience at the end of a creative project.
- Completing the book is saying goodbye to the version of you that wrote the book.
- Your relationship with your book changes when it goes out into the world.
- How the process of birthing your book can be uncomfortable but a powerful experience.
- The alchemical, liminal space of birthing your book.
- How we are called to let go of attachment when we release our books into the world.
- The spiritual lesson of letting fo that our books teach us.
- How the relationship with your book changes and evolves as it goes out into the world.
Links mentioned:
Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts: http://mamagenas.co
Sheila Hay, and her ecstatic birth class: https://ecstatic-birth.com/about/
UNBOUND Writing Mastermind
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode, Nicola talks to UNBOUND Press author Tara Jackson.
Tara's first book, EMBODIED, was released last year on July 11.
Her next book, EMBODIED BUSINESS is coming out on November 11 with the UNBOUND Press.
In this episode:
- Listen in on what being an UNBOUND Writer means to Tara
- Discover how Tara’s second book arrived for her
- Hear about what stories Tara had to unbind herself from in order to write her first book (and her second!)
- Learn how the structure arrived for Tara, much to her surprise!
- Hear what Tara’s main learnings were from writing her first book and tuning into her second one
- How Tara’s process changed her as the author
- How Tara’s book had an energy and life of it’s own
- How Tara’s writing process works for her
Links mentioned:
UNBOUND Writing Mastermind
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Tara:
Website: https://www.empathpreneurs.org
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/empathpreneurs/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/empathpreneurscommunity/
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
Many of us feel held back from writing a book because there is a feeling that we need to be "the" expert, or that we don't know enough.
In this episode, Nicola breaks down three reasons why you don't have to be an expert to write a book, and why it's actually more transformative for your reader if you take them on a journey with you.
- You can be a contributor rather than an expert:
Come from a place of contribution rather than a place of knowing everything on a subject. When we come from a place of being in service, there is something freeing in that. - You can write a book that activates rather than simply provides information
There are three types of books: - Expert books that provide information
- Books that provide inspiration
- Books that provide a sense of activation
Books that activate encourage the readers to take action; something changes within them. You are activated and transformed as you write it, and your readers experience a sense of activation as they read it.
It’s not about the information you are proving in your book, it’s about the experience you go through as you write it, and the experience your readers have as they read it.
3. It’s powerful when you focus on the journeyWhen you share your journey as you experience it, the question of being an expert doesn’t come into it. The fact you are being called to write a book is no accident.
Even if you are a beginner in a subject, there is something so authentic about taking the readers on a journey with you as you learn. You invite your readers to come with you.
Trust your own perspective.
Be 100% who you are and write from that place.
Links mentioned:Denise Duffield Thomas
UNBOUND Writing Mastermind
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
Amy Barbiaz is one of the newest authors with UNBOUND press.
Amy’s book After the Last Fall is the first fiction release for the UNBOUND press.
Amy shares what being an UNBOUND writer means to her, and how being able to put into the world fierce female leads not bound by patriarchy tropes, and bringing to light that there is more than one way to be a woman is important to her writing.
A theme that comes through strongly in After The Last Fall is that there is no one way to be female, which for Amy is important.
As a social worker in her full time job, Amy is involved in empowering victims of domestic violence, and working with the LGBTQ+ community.
For Amy, a lot of people who feel homeless in the world can find their place with the right people, and her story is a powerful way to illustrate this.
Amy’s inspiration came from the last 3 minutes of a 7 minute long song, on the way to a client visit. Her story of the how the first scene arrived from musical inspiration is a perfect example of UNBOUND writing, and how we can create transformational books and powerful messages in the most amazing, magical ways.
We talk about:
- The UNBOUND writing price and how Amy found her inspiration
- How Amy wrote her book around her busy daily life
- How fiction can be as transformational as writing non fiction.
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Connect with Amy on her website, on Facebook, and on Instagram.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this Episode, Nicola takes us through 6 ways to get started writing a book, the UNBOUND Way.
1. Gain clarity through writing
You don't have to have a detailed plan for your book, and you don't need to map it all out when you begin writing the UNBOUND way.
We can gain clarity through writing, the act of writing allows the words to start to come.
Letting go of a big plan leaves space for magic, and leaves space for a transformational, magical process of letting the book to unfold.
2. Ask what needs to come throughAsking "What needs to come through" is a really powerful question.
Putting yourself in a place of trust means you create space to notice and to observe breadcrumbs in your life of people, situations and events that need to be part of the transformational process.
3. Know that you are not alone when writing
This is a collaborative process between you and the essence of the book that wants to come through you at this time.
Ask your book what it wants to share, and allow that entity to come through and show you what it needs to express.
4. Think about the journey you want to take your reader onHave a sense of the journey, even if it's not super clear. Think about the challenge the reader might experience when they come to you, and the journey you can take them on as they come to your book.
Think about how you want to hold space for them and to take them through the process.
5. Use storytelling where you can
Readers connect with you, and your stories - from your childhood, from your experience, from your clients- provide a way for them to connect on a deeper level.
6. Allow yourself to write in a way that is non-linear
You don't need to write in any order. We are cyclical beings, the creative process is cyclical; by giving yourself permission to write in a non-linear way, when you show up for your writing you can write what shows up for you that day, and trust it's what needs to come through.
Also mentioned:
Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic
Hiro Bogo
Unbound Writing prompts
Connecting With Your Book visualisation
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode of The UNBOUND Writer's club, Nicola introduces the concept of UNBOUND, the word she came to embody and that sits at the heart of her work at The UNBOUND Press.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Nicola Humber's website and book
- Heal Your Inner Good Girl book
- The UNBOUND Press website
- Danielle LaPorte's Desire Map
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade
In this episode, Nicola introduces the new podcast, The UNBOUND Writer's club, and what you can expect from it.
Links mentioned in the show:
- Nicola Humber's website and book
- The UNBOUND Press website
- Outiart Etsy shop
Connect with Nicola on Instagram, and The UNBOUND Press on Instagram or Facebook here.
Music Credit: Joseph McDade